Friday, April 15, 2005

Security of the Papal Election

Bruce Schneier, again, this time on the security of the Papal election process.

There are a number of elaborate rules and procedures for casting and tallying the votes in this election. How well does the system stand up from the standpoint of security? The answer is, pretty well.

And a third and final lesson: when an election process is left to develop over the course of a couple thousand years, you end up with something surprisingly good.

RTWT

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