THE VIDEO SHELF · cryptography and verifiable voting
Theory and Practice of Cryptography
A Google Tech Talk by Steve Weis that introduces modern cryptography and its use in practice and at Google. It covers proofs of security and security definitions and a special topic. HN commenters treat it as a talk on verifiable electronic voting.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN keeps pointing to it as a long, fascinating talk on cryptographic, verifiable voting whenever e-voting security comes up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- cryptography and verifiable voting
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2019
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From the original HN conversations
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I can't believe this talk hasn't been posted yet! Theory and Practice of Cryptography: Verifying Elections with Cryptography [VIDEO] This is probably one of the homomorphic schemes mentioned in TFA. It's very old (2007-ish?) and the state of the art probably advanced, but it's very …
kaoD on Hacker News · 2016-11
In An idea for encrypted, verifiable votingYoutube users: 'UserGroupsatGoogle' and 'GoogleTechTalks' post some epic content for the more advanced programmer. Continuous Integration with Hudson: [LINK] Cryptography Theory and practice: [VIDEO]
maeon3 on Hacker News · 2011-02
In Free university lectures on computer science> counted by hand. By whom? Overseen by whom? Who oversees the overseers? Not to mention people make mistakes, ballots get dumped, and nobody has any evidence their vote was actually counted. Here's a long but fascinating tech talk on a real solution: [VIDEO]
aianus on Hacker News · 2014-07
In Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”
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