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From: tomten@netcom.UUCP (Greg Broiles)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Let's get moving gang!!!
Message-ID: <12584@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 09:01:44 GMT
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In article <737@primerd.PRIME.COM> milgr@teapot.prime.COM (Marc Milgram) writes:
>In article <7686@helios.TAMU.EDU>, jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) writes:
>|>Consider the power of an overnight call to rally, e-mail style...
>|>
>|>Consider voting directly through the computer at all levels of
>|>	government... (what electorate?)
>|>
>Most people have neither the interest not the inclination to do the research
>for every vote carried out at the federal and state levels.  However, this

>Including< our elected representatives.

>|>Consider signing and sending petitions through the network...
>|>	(digital signatures)
>|>
>People keep bringing up the point that it is too easy forging signatures
>through email.  I see major problems if electronic petitions were allowed
>for federal and state political purposes.  (I guess that people can still
>forge signatures using pen and ink, but it is not as easy).

It is my understanding that through the use of public-key cryptography,
it is possible to create (at the moment, with today's hardware, yeah yeah
yeah) pretty-much unforgable digital signatures, by encoding text with
one's private key, that can then be decoded with one's public key,
authenticating that the person sending the message had possession of the
private key paired with the public key.

>
>|>Consider people carrying "dynabooks" or "tablets" around...
>|>
>|>Consider looking at links rather than data...
>
>Do you mean for tracing criminals?  It has been done.

I suspect he means that we can look at interesting correlations and
patterns difficult to spot without brute-force searches that humans have
little patience for - as well as stuff like text-in-context searches such
as those used in legal databases.

>|>
>|>On your marks, get set...  get modern!!!!
>|>
>|>--
>|> ---- \ / ----	  /--------------------------------------------\  James
>Bennett Saxon
>|>|   O|	 |   O|	  |  "I aught to join the club and beat you    | 
>Visualization Laboratory
>|>|    |   |    |   |   over the head with it." -- Groucho Marx  | 
>Texas A&M University
>|> ----     ----   <---------------------------------------------/ 
>jsaxon@cssun.tamu.edu
>                   
>
>Marc Milgram
>milgr@teapot.prime.com


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