Archive for: September, 2008

Information Card Foundation using Helios

Sep 18 2008 Published by under Uncategorized

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

Sep 12 2008 Published by under release

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.

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