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Malicious observers could block decryption #209

Open dglittle opened 1 month ago

dglittle commented 1 month ago

Can observers themselves be malicious? What if one chooses to defect?

For example, if an observer decides to not follow the protocol, can they halt an election? From experimenting with the system, at least in implementation, this appears to be correct.

Originally posted by @mspecter in https://github.com/siv-org/siv/issues/195

arianabuilds commented 2 weeks ago

Entry Summary for HACK SIV @ DEF CON 2024

Thanks again for participating! This submission earned $113.38 from SIV and $57.86 from the Public Vote, for a total of $171.24.

Here's what we noted in our evaluation:

What's interesting about this submission

Very good thing to highlight

What takes away from it

But always been known from day 1. Open issue ""t < n threshold key"" about this
Some other mitigation strategies in the works (Privacy Protectors 2.0 design), & potentially new Customizable Shuffle Paths concept

Issue to track getting paid: https://github.com/siv-org/hack.siv.org/issues/11