News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government

November 10,

2004

http://www.legitgov.org/



http://www.legitgov.org

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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."