Past research on Internet voting has been concentrated on two aspects. First, there are investigations to find the appropriate balance between anonymity and authentication. Second, the impact of the use of Internet voting to legislation has been studied. In this paper we analyze the impact of legislation to the design of a real Internet voting system. We discuss how legal aspects constitute sec...

We provide techniques to help vendors, independent testing agencies, and others verify critical security properties in direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines. We rely on specific hardware functionality, isolation, and architectural decision to allow one to easily verify these critical security properties; we believe our techniques will help us verify other properties as well. Verific...

The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in governance over the years by electronic government has influenced democratic decision making through electronic voting (e-voting).E-voting provides increased participation of populace, reduced cost, decreased cases of invalid votes and support basis of democracy. However, e-voting systems are generally prone to security ri...

World wide, there are various proposals for automating manual voting processes. This paper considers two different e-voting schemes, Internet voting and direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems, explicitly focusing on risk to the integrity of the voting process. Fair elections must assure voter authentication, vote confidentiality and integrity, and the ability to audit the election. E-...

Electronic voting is done by recording election data centrally and presenting it into fast digital information. E-voting an internet technology, which aims to improve the performance of process, expected be a breakthrough in technological development that helps human work. Security constraints e-voting include distribution voting, for example voters who distribute rights, are illegitimate can a...

The Norwegian government ran trials of internet remote voting during the 2011 municipal elections and the 2013 parliamentary elections. From a simplified version of the voting protocol used there, the essential cryptographic operations of the voting protocol has been put together into a cryptosystem in which one can build the voting protocol on top of. This paper proposes a new instantiation of...

The design of an electronic voting system has been a hot research topic in the area of information security. Based on ID-based ring signature, blind signature, multi-verification technology and existed typical electronic voting models, an improved anonymous electronic voting system is designed. We proved that the new system has good properties of security: anonymity, eligibility, fairness, nonr...

Our paper deals with the security of operational environments for evoting and its importance for the security of electronic elections. So far the security of e-voting was focused on secure e-voting protocols. We show that the security of electronic elections requires a secure operational environment as well. We provide a comprehensive catalogue of organizational and technical requirements which...

Concerns about both security and fault-tolerance have had an important impact on the design and use of distributed information systems in the past. As such systems become more prevalent, as well as more pervasive, these concerns will become even more immediately relevant. From national defense, to commercial interests, to private citizens, distributed systems are making an ever greater impact o...