Diebold Source Code!!!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jay Fenello <Jay () Fenello com>
Date: November 10, 2004 6:58:20 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d () adelphia net>
Subject: Diebold Source Code!!!



 FYI:

 At 11/10/2004  06:40 PM, CLG News wrote:

News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government
  November 10, 2004
 http://www.legitgov.org/
   http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news


Diebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) "Dr. Avi Rubin is 
currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He 
'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software 
program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr. 
Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this 
software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest: 
#defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have 
provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their 
contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that 
staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the 
Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), 
a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to 
secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, 
because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would 
respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I 
can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the 
reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch 
of the imagination."

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