Archive for September, 2008

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Information Card Foundation using Helios

September 18, 2008

The Information Card Foundation is using Helios for its board election. Perfect use case: 50 people who will likely never all meet in person, but who need to vote on some issues. Helios provides them with a feature they literally could not achieve otherwise today: a secret ballot combined with real end-user verifiability that all votes were correctly captured and counted.

All of this practical interest is bringing up a few interesting needs, like a small widget you can post to your page that provides the status of the election and eventually the results. Fun things to think about.

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Feature Updates

September 12, 2008

The last few weeks have seen significant new Helios features:

  • voter categories, so you can have multiple “precincts”
  • an alpha of a machine API with open registration, so that authentication can be performed by a third-party
  • distributed decryption by multiple trustees (hot off the press a few minutes ago!)

Documentation is outstanding on this, I need to get to that soon.