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Ballot Casting Assurance via Voter-Initiated Poll Station Auditing , Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research 08/06/07 audit, crypto, The technology for veriŻable, open-audit elections has advanced substantially since research on this topic began a quarter century ago. Many of the problems...
Bare-Handed Electronic Voting with Pre-processing , Ben Riva and Amnon Ta-Shma, Tel-Aviv University 08/06/07 crypto, noreceipt, Many electronic voting schemes assume the user votes with some computing device. This raises the question whether a voter can...
Three Voting Protocols: ThreeBallot, VAV, and Twin Warren D. Smith, , Dr. Ron Rivest 08/06/07 crypto, paper, We present three new paper-based voting methods with interesting security properties. Our goal is to achieve the same security properties...
Simulation-based analysis of E2E voting systems , Olivier de Marne e, Olivier Pereira, Jean-Jacques Quisquater Universite catholique de Louvain 07/29/07 crypto, analysis, End-to-end auditable voting systems are expected to guarantee very interesting, and often sophisticated security properties, including correctness, privacy, fairness, receipt-freeness,...
A Verifiable Voting Protocol based on Farnel , Roberto Araújo, et al. 06/20/07 crypto, Farnel, paper, threeballot, Farnel is a voting system proposed in 2001 in which each voter signs a ballot. It uses two ballot boxes to avoid...
Component Based Electronic Voting Systems , David Lundin, University of Surrey 06/20/07 crypto, election administration, An electronic voting system may be said to be composed by a number of components, each of which has a number of...
Punchscan with Independent Ballot Sheets: Simplifying Ballot Printing and Distribution with Independently Selected Ballot Halves Dr. David Chaum, 06/20/07 crypto, punchscan, receipt, paper, We propose and implement a modification to the Punchscan protocol that simplifies ballot printing and distribution. In this improved version, each voter creates...
Punchscan in Practice: An E2E Election Case Study , Aleks Essex, Jeremy Clark,, University of Ottawa, Rick Carback, UMBC, Stefan Popoveniuc, George Washi 06/20/07 crypto, punchscan, This paper presents a case study of the E2E voting system Punchscan and its first use in a binding election. The election...
Pręt ŕ Voter: All-In-One , Z. Xia, S. Schneider, J. Heather, P. Ryan, D. Lundin, R. Peel, P. Howard 06/20/07 crypto, A number of voter-verifiable electronic voting schemes have been introduced in the recent decades. These schemes not only provide each voter...
On the Security of Ballot Receipts in E2E Voting Systems , Jeremy Clark, Aleks Essex, and Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa 06/20/07 crypto, receipt, punchscan, threeballot, This paper examines and compares the security of ballot receipts in three end-to-end auditable (E2E) voting systems: Pr^et a Voter, Punchscan,...
Undervote and Pattern Voting: Vulnerability and a mitigation technique , Stefan Popoveniuc and Jonathan Stanton, George Washington University 06/20/07 crypto, punchscan, receipt, undervote, Highly secure and auditable voting systems have been developed recently that open up the possibility of not only voting systems that...
Vote Verification using CAPTCHA-like Primitives , Rahul Simha and Poorvi L. Vora, George Washington University 06/20/07 crypto, ...
Civitas: A Secure Remote Voting System , Michael R. Clarkson, Stephen Chong, Andrew C. Myers Cornell University 05/01/07 remote voting, crypto, internet voting, coercion, Civitas is the first implementation of a coercion-resistant, universally verifiable, remote voting scheme. This paper describes the design of Civitas, details...
ThreeBallot in the Field , Harvey Jones, Jason Juang, Greg Belote MIT 12/13/06 threeballot, cryptography, paper, Voting systems have been the subject of much recent controversy. Due to the difficulty of securing and auditing electronic voting systems,...
The ThreeBallot Voting System Dr. Ron Rivest, 10/01/06 innovation, paper, cryptography, We present a new paper-based voting method with interesting security properties. The attempt here is to see if one can achieve the...
Tear and Destroy: Chain voting and destruction problems shared by Prêt à Voter and Punchscan and a solution using Visual Encryption , D. Lundin, H. Treharne, S. Schneider, J. Heather, Z. Xia, University of Surrey, P. Y. A. Ryan, Newca 09/19/06 Prêt à Voter, Punchscan, receipts, paper, visual cryptography, Prêt à Voter and Punchscan are two electronic voting schemes that both use paper based ballot forms, part of which is...
How to fit cryptographic e-voting into smart cards , Sé, bastien Canard, Hervé, Sibert, France Telecom 09/19/06 group signatures, smart cards, cryptography, The complexity of voting procedures make it challenging to design a secure electronic voting system. In many proposals, the security of...
Simple VeriŻable Elections , Josh Benaloh 08/01/06 cryptography, E2E crypto, privacy, Much work has been done in recent decades to apply sophisticated cryptographic techniques to achieve strong end-to-end veriŻability in election protocols. The properties...
Ballot Casting Assurance , Ben Adida, MIT, C. Andrew Neff, VoteHere 08/01/06 cryptography, E2E crypto, privacy, We propose that voting protocols be judged in part on ballot casting assurance, a property which complements universal verifiability. Some protocols already...
Advances in Cryptographic Voting Systems Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Ben Adida, MIT 07/01/06 cryptography, security, Democracy depends on the proper administration of popular elections. Voters should receive assurance that their intent was correctly captured and that...
Encrypted Receipts for Voter-Verified Elections Using Homomorphic Encryption Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Joy Marie Forsythe, MIT 08/16/05 cryptography, voter verification, Voters are now demanding the ability to verify that their votes are cast and counted as intended. Most existing cryptographic election...
Misassessment of Security in Computer-Based Election Systems Douglas Jones 09/01/04 security, cryptography, The second article, by Professor Douglas Jones of the University of Iowa, critiques what appears to be the current state-of-the-art in...
Secret-Ballot Receipts: True Voter-Verifiable Elections Dr. David Chaum 01/01/04 cryptography, voter verification, A new kind of receipt sets a far higher standard of security by letting voters verify the election outcome-even if all election...
Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues Congressional Research Service, Congressional Research Service 11/04/03 security, DRE, VVPAT, cryptography, policy, In July 2003, computer scientists from Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities released a security analysis of software purportedly from a...
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