Luis Villa wrote: >>> http://www.heliosvoting.org/ >> ^^^ >> Anyone know what's the purpose of the Google API stuff in this code? >> (Not necessarily a question just for Luis, but for anyone knowledgeable >> looking at the code.) > > Author cc'd. Ben? It's written to the Google App Engine API, so that it can be hosted with scalability and reliability more or less for free: http://code.google.com/appengine/ common question: "So I have to trust Google?" Actually no. That's the point of cryptographically verified voting: you do NOT trust the host of the election, you verify the results using the built-in verifier code (which you can run as the standalone Python script from your home machine.) Also, the only Google-based login is for the election administrator. Individual voters do *not* need Google accounts. That said, if you still want to take on the hosting of the software independently, I'm working on a PostgreSQL-backed version of the code. You can actually see the beginnings of that in the source tree. Happy to answer any additional questions. -Ben PS: the Information Card Foundation just used Helios for their board election, 2-person board with 50 voters, worked without a single voter complaint. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
