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From: Jay Fenello <Jay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 10, 2004 6:58:20 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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