Cryptographic voting debuts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT`s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he`s quite pleased with how the technology worked. Takoma Park`s city clerk, Jessie Carpenter, agrees that the trial "went very well."

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