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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can't Decrypt the Results

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html
18•FabHK•1h ago

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FabHK•1h ago
https://archive.is/NOnfx
cube00•35m ago
we have encountered a fatal technical problem that prevents us from concluding the election and accessing the final tally,

How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"?

we will adopt a 2-out-of-3 threshold mechanism for the management of private keys

The trustee responsible has resigned so why weaken security going forward?

I would have thought cryptography experts losing keys would be pretty rare, like a fire at a Sea Parks.

kube-system•30m ago
It sounds like the technical problem is that they spent more time thinking about cryptography itself than they did about the prudent application of it.

Confidentiality that undermines availability might be good cryptography but it violates basic tenets of information security.

woodruffw•2m ago
> How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"?

The human half of the problem is the loss of the key; the technical half of the problem is being unable to decrypt the election results.

> The trustee responsible has resigned so why weaken security going forward?

I don't think there's a scenario in which a 2-of-3 threshold is a significant risk to IACR.

generalizations•24m ago
Nerds do tend to forget that people make procedural errors.
gattis•14m ago
in other words, someone didnt like the election results

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