Fwd: CLG Diebold Source Code!!!

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News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government

November 10, 2004

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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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