Meh.. just scale it up, man. How much do we spend on elections now?The Conservative wrote:Cheap and effective have almost never in the same sentence... unless you are talking about a $5 whore from Vietnam.GrumpyCatFace wrote:I'm not at that level, but I did major in Networking. Wouldn't it be prudent to just use Cisco's built-in router encryption, maybe some cheap VPN software? I will never understand why every company tries to reinvent the wheel on this stuff.The Conservative wrote:
I'm the director of Infrastructure for a company, we are dealing with something very similar to what was suggested... I'll tell you right now, 1/2 of my day is in meetings talking about security and the cost of infrastructure to support the system.
Yeah, it's hard, because you don't want to use a third party application to rely on for encryption and security to say the least. That is like waiving a flag out there saying you company is ready to be ass raped by a hacker and have their data stolen from them.
The VPN system we have can handle 10,000 users at one given time. It cost $7,500 to get... just for the hardware. Not to mention three year contract at about $1200... but that also gives us access to firmware and potential hardware replacement if it fails. It also includes extras for software that the Firewall itself can't do...
So if we are talking about world wide network and have it so each poling site is a user, and not have each poling machine, then theoretically $15K and 2.4K every three years is cheap...
Have everybody sign into a VPN to their regional Voting Server.