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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon open-telemetry

Consider trustees for GC election

Open danielgblanco opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Considering the following comment

https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1560#issuecomment-1773360328

Is there any benefit in adding trustees?

danielgblanco avatar Aug 26 '24 18:08 danielgblanco

To be discussed in next GC meeting (Thursday 29th August 2024)

danielgblanco avatar Aug 27 '24 14:08 danielgblanco

Reading at Helios Voting docs

Trustees are responsible for decrypting the election result. Each trustee generates a keypair and submits the public portion to Helios. When it's time to decrypt, each trustee needs to provide their secret key.

The default trustee is Helios alone, which means that if we add no trustees (same as in previous years) the election will be able to be tallied and released by the admin (@danielgblanco) via the Helios Voting UI, without having access to any of the individual votes.

danielgblanco avatar Aug 27 '24 15:08 danielgblanco

Discussed in GC meeting Thur 29 Aug 2024. For the reasons stated above, we will not add any additional trustees.

danielgblanco avatar Aug 29 '24 19:08 danielgblanco