[Licom-l] SecurePoll Tallying Post-Mortem

Mon May 18 23:26:18 UTC 2009

El 5/17/09 3:54 PM, Robert Rohde escribió:
> Tim&  Brion,
>
> The Licensing Update Vote is over and tallied.  However, I want to
> note for the record that in order to do the tallying we had to abandon
> Mediawiki and reimplement the decryption routine as a Python script.
> (This is also why the tally procedure that I expected to take 15
> minutes ended up being delayed more than a day.)
>
> The core problem is that the SecurePoll implementation does not scale
> well.  It worked fine in testing with 15 votes, and massively failed
> with 17000.

*whistle*

This is five times the turnout we got in the 2008 board elections. If we 
expect future votes to be similarly popular then yes, we may wish to 
consider a more efficient way of storing the votes securely... :)

Thanks for everybody's help in making the vote happen!

-- brion