So secure was the annual contest to fill three director and four officer positions that when one trustee lost his cryptographic key to unlock the results, the error made it impossible.

  • fatalicus@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Which is stupid, since the reason they had 3/3 was that two people could not collaborate to change the results, which they now can with 2/3.

    Should have been changed to 3/5 instead.

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      5 hours ago

      Exactly, it’s worse all around.

      And it’s not like it’s hard to use a different configuration; the threshold and total number of keys are just parameters of the algorithm.