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As an authority, you are tasked with sharing the responsibility of maintaining the security of an election. As daunting as that sounds, this job fortunately requires little work on your part.
If you would like a greater understanding of the reasons behind why Adder uses a multi-authority system, refer to Chapter 2, Basic Concepts.
Before you can begin functioning as an authority, you must have the proper information from your election administrator, including a username, password, hostname, and an SSL certficate. Assuming you have this information, following the instructions in the section called “Installing the SSL Certificate” to install the SSL certficate and in the section called “Connecting to the Server” to connect to the server. Next, you must select a key directory as shown in Figure 4.1, “The Key Locations Dialog”. This must be a directory that you have write access to. The default filenames should be fine.
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