[Cryptography] Questions about crypto that lay people want to understand

[Ron Garret]

On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Christian Huitema <huitema at huitema.net> wrote:
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>> After that, it is a legal and political process, the outcome of which depends mostly on the local political culture. 
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> Indeed.  Case in point:
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> http://www.salon.com/2015/12/19/george_w_bush_vs_al_gore_15_years_later_we_really_did_inaugurate_the_wrong_guy/

Two more worthwhile (and slightly less politically charged) links:

http://civicdesigning.org/uncategorized/why-is-it-so-hard-to-produce-a-usable-well-designed-ballot-2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

It’s a really hard problem.

rg