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This page contains support
information in areas of Internet security, cryptography, protocols,
case
studies of electronic elections experience worldwide, as well as useful
links to developments in areas related to voting and collaborative
decision-making.
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Technology
- Reliability in Voting (Seminar) The fundamental problem of voting is stated
for the first time and solved,in 2001, in terms of Shannon's Information Theory. Introduces a general
model of voting that applies to any voting technology, now and in the future. The method of also
printing a paper ballot, used with some DREs to help prevent fraud and errors, is shown to be
indeterminate and open to fraud in the paper record itself. The paper further describes a
solution, in terms of Shannon's Information Theory, providing any desired number of independent
records, which are readily available to be reviewed by observers, without ever linking voters to ballots.
This paper describes the foundation of Safevote's technology, including the Witness Voting System.
(The PowerPoint original is available at
Caltech/MIT Gerck Presentation)
- About Our Technology Safevote electronic and Internet
voting technology was developed to provide the privacy and security
properties that are necessary for public elections, meeting or exceeding what is
required for private elections.
- Internet Voting System and Requirements In "The
Business of Electronic Voting" panel, p.243-268, Paul F. Syverson
(Ed.): Financial Cryptography, 5th International Conference, FC 2001,
Grand Cayman, British West Indies, February 19-22, 2002, Proceedings.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2339 Springer 2002, ISBN
3-540-44079-8.
- Voting System Requirements (Seminar) Consistent, technologically-neutral,
strict, and clear requirements for voting systems.
- Fail-Safe
Voter Privacy What happens if some unqualified voters were wrongly
allowed to vote in a close election and there was a court order to seek
out and disqualify their votes under best efforts? This report
discusses this scenario as a worst-case analysis regarding an attack on
voter privacy for a Safevote system, and why it should and would fail
to reveal the voters.
- Contra
Costa County Election Report Final report presented to the
California Secretary of State. The Contra Costa Internet Voting Test
was performed by Safevote under contract with the California Secretary
of State, from October 30th to November 3rd, 2000. Also available in PDF (printer friendly)
- Witness Voting System (Seminar) The Witness-Voting System (WVS), without requiring paper and
paper costs, is able to prove to anyone that every vote counts. Paper and other
media can also be used. The WVS verifies whether what the voter sees and confirms
on the screen is what is actually recorded and counted. The WVS provides any
desired number of independent records, which are readily available to be reviewed by
election officials, without ever linking voters to ballots.
- E-Government (Seminar) Assuring Trust, Privacy and Integrity for Internet Voting.
UN International Conference on E-Government for Development.
- "Private, Secure And Auditable
Internet Voting", a comprehensive, technical chapter authored by Ed
Gerck, Ph.D., in the book "Secure Electronic Voting", published by
Kluwer/Spring. Gritzalis, Dimitris (Ed.), 2003, 240 p. ISBN-10:
1-4020-7301-1. The book is available at Amazon and at Springer Verlag
Papers, Reports, Books and Slides
- The Bell
Newsletter on Privacy, Security and Technology in Internet Voting.
Ten-issue archive, from May 2000 to February 2001.
- Voting
System Requirements (IVTA) This proposal contains strict voting
standards, with a set of 16 requirements that support fail-safe
privacy, verifiable security and tamper-proof ballots. This set of
requirements is technologically neutral and can be applied to paper,
electronic and Internet voting, exceeding the current FEC
requirements for paper-based ballots in the U.S., and also those for
electronic voting DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) machines.
- Swedish Government Internet Voting Requirement
SOU:2000:125
- Secure Electronic Voting, New Trends, New Threats
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Overview
of Certification Systems: X.509, CA, PGP and SKIP
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Toward
Real-World Models of Trust: Reliance on Received Information
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Reflections
on Trusting Trust
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Über
die Notwendigkeit genormter kryptographischer Verfahren
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Efficient
Secure Multi-Party Computation
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Efficient
Receipt-Free Voting Based on Homomorphic Encryption
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A
Secure and Optimally Efficient Multi-Authority Election Scheme
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How
to Break and Repair a "Provably Secure" Untraceable Payment System
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Unconditionally
Untraceable and Fault-tolerant Broadcast and Secret Ballot Election
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Multi-authority
secret ballot elections with linear work
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An Information-Theoretic Model of Voting Systems
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Digital Certificates: Applied
Internet Security by J. Feghhi, J. Feghhi and P. Williams,
Addison-Wesley,
ISBN 0-20-130980-7, 1998.
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Handbook of Applied Cryptography,
by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorschot (Editor), Scott A. Vanstone
(Editor), CRC Press; ISBN: 0849385237, 1996.
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols,
Algorithms, and Source Code in C, by B. Schneier, John Wiley &
Sons;
ISBN: 0471117099, 1995.
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Secrets and Lies : Digital Security
in a Networked World, by B. Schneier, John Wiley & Sons; ISBN:
0471253111,
2000.
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