Self-Enforcing Protocols

Bruce Schneier:

Self-enforcing protocols are safer than other types because participants don’t gain an advantage from cheating. Modern voting systems are rife with the potential for cheating, but an open show of hands in a room — one that everyone in the room can count for himself — is self-enforcing.

(Via Wilfredo Sánchez.)

★ Tuesday, 18 August 2009