One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.
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smeg@feddit.uk 6 months agoHow do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it’s just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Potentially, but any amount of obfuscation opens up the system to abuse.
If you trust the server hosting the community to handle all encryption, it’s trivial for the admin to disable.
If you trust the server sending the vote, then it’s trivial for a server admin to game the system and send hundreds of votes.
solrize@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll loses, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.