Anthony wrote:
On 9/23/06, Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
I didn't want to ask this actually while voting was open in case anyone got worried, but not that voting has closed I'd like to ask something.
How are our votes actually counted and, more importantly, how can we each be certain that the votes we made are actually the ones which are being counted?
During the first election I asked this and what I got from the discussion was that this can't be done. The process used for encryption generates random padding so that re-encrypting the exact same message using the same public key will produce a different result every time. My "receipt" did not indicate any information about this random string/padding.
It's part of the OpenPGP protocol.