Hollow Being writes "In an essay posted to Threatpost, Bruce Schneier makes the wrangle that self-enforcing protocols are better suited to gage and problem-solving. From the article: 'Self-enforcing protocols are safer than other types because applicants don't gain an odds from cheating. Modern voting systems are rife with the undeveloped for cheating, but an open show of hands in a room — one that everyone in the room can count for himself — is self-enforcing. On the other hand, there's no secret ballot, late voters are potentially subjected to coercion, and it doesn't scale well to large elections. But there are mathematical advance poll protocols that have self-enforcing properties, and some cryptographers have suggested their use in elections.'"

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