Technical research has achieved strong advances in addressing security concerns in internet voting, yet the solutions are complicated and difficult to explain to the public. Accordingly, internet voting commonly faces opposition despite the benefits voters and authorities may expect. It appears that security features are only one premise underlying a system's acceptance among the electorate. The other challenge is to exploit these features at establishing the required trust among the public. In this paper we introduce a number of measures meant to help at gaining trust. We hereby emphasize the importance of taking the exposition of a system's security features and the remaining risks as the foundation of any strategy. After describing the proposed measures and discussing both their advantages and pitfalls, we relate them to four commonly known applied internet voting systems.
Abstract. Remote electronic voting has attracted increasing attention in cryptographic research. A promising protocol presented by Juels et al. is currently widely discussed. Although it offers a remarkably high degree of coercion-resistance under reasonable assumptions, it can not be employed in practice due to its poor efficiency. The improvements that have been proposed either require stronger trust assumptions or turned out to be insecure. In this paper, we present an enhancement of the protocol, which runs in linear time without changing the underlying trust assumptions.
The short history of e-voting has shown that projects are doomed to fail in the absence of trust among the electorate. The first binding Norwegian Internet elections are scheduled for fall 2011. Notably, transparency is taken as a guideline in the project. This article discusses transparency and other measures the Norwegians apply that are suited to establish profound trust, i.e. trust that grounds on the system's technical features, rather than mere assertions. We show whether at all, how and to which degree these measures are implemented and point out room for enhancements. We also address general challenges of projects which try to reach a high level of transparency for others as lessons learned.
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