Posted on 08/29/2019 8:18:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A French researcher has exposed a security breach in an electronic voting system to be used in next month’s municipal elections in Moscow, potentially giving hackers access to voters’ choices.
The University of Lorraine and France’s CNRS research institute said this week the cryptographer had taken up a challenge set by Echo of Moscow radio to test the system being rolled out for the vote.
“Less than a month before Moscow tries online voting for electing the city’s new parliament, a French cryptographer has just exposed a security breach for the protocol being tested,” the two institutions said in a statement.
The researcher, Pierrick Gaudry, was able to crack into the source code being published daily as part of a public test since late July.
Gaudry needed only 20 minutes to break the encryption code, or “private key”, that is supposed to protect voters’ identities and choices. He used a standard computer and widely available free software. …
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What do they care? The vote is meaningless anyway.
Because then it can be done anywhere.
Count paper ballots.
French researcher was able to hack into Russian vote counting machines in just 20 minutes.
Proof they have the same voting machines we do.
In Russia, votes count YOU!
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/
Haven't read the details, but hope it can prevent the ballot-box-in-the-trunk escapades that elected Al Franken.
That would be great.
So I surmise the dems will be blaming the French for their 2020 losses.
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