Diebold Source Code!!!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: November 11, 2004 10:37:36 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Source Code!!!



: no confirmation djf

The source code was discovered on the internet in Jan. 2003 and Avi 
Rubin
wrote his report in July 2003. Here's the story about how it unfolded:

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62790,00.html





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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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