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General election 'wash-up': legislation mired in uncertainty as parliament prorogued

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Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners does away with electronic signatures for voter registration; Group says decision will enhance voter suppression

The Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners passed a rule Tuesday doing away with electronic signatures for voter registration, a move one organization claims will result in voter suppression.

Govt makes e- sign mandatory in e-office from June 1

Srinagar: The government on Monday directed all the Administrative Departments, Head of Departments, Deputy Commissioners, Managing Directors of various PSUs, Boards and Corporations to ensure that the officers and officials of their respective departments shall use Digital Signatures (DSC) or Aadhaar based e- sign/e-Hastaakshar as mode of signing notes in e-office from June 1. “The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public

"Withdrawable Signature: How to Call Off a Signature" by Xin Liu, Joonsang Baek et al.

Digital signatures are a cornerstone of security and trust in cryptography, providing authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation. Despite their benefits, traditional digital signature schemes suffer from inherent immutability, offering no provision for a signer to retract a previously issued signature. This paper introduces the concept of a withdrawable signature scheme, which allows for the retraction of a signature without revealing the signer’s private key or compromising the security of other signatures the signer created before. This property, defined as “withdrawability”, is particularly relevant in decentralized systems, such as e-voting, blockchain-based smart contracts, and escrow services, where signers may wish to revoke or alter their commitment. The core idea of our construction of a withdrawable signature scheme is to ensure that the parties with a withdrawable signature are not convinced whether the signer signed a specific message. This ability to generate a sig