Measures to establish trust in internet voting

Volkamer, Melanie; Spycher, Oliver; Dubuis, Eric

doi:10.1145/2072069.2072071

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“…E-governance also focuses on aspects that are relevant to internet voting, such as transparency, evaluation according to international standards, separation of duty, verifiability, vote updating, etc. to establish trust among the public [28], [31].…”

Section: A the Economy Of Truth In The It Community's Perspectivementioning

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Trust in internet election observing the Norwegian decryption and counting ceremony

Markussen

Ronquillo

Schürmann

2014

2014 6th International Conference on Electronic Voting: Verifying the Vote (EVOTE)

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This paper discusses the Decryption and Counting Ceremony held in conjunction with the internet voting trial on election day in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development of Norway in 2013. We examine the organizers' ambition of making the decryption and counting of electronic votes public in order to sustain trust in internet voting. We introduce a pragmatic approach to trust that emphasises the inseparability of truth from witnessing it. Based on this and on a description of how the event was made observable and how the complexities in the counting process were disclosed, we discuss what we term economy of truth from the perspective of the IT community involved in the ceremony. We claim that broadening the economy of truth by including more explicitly social and political perspectives in the ceremony, and in internet elections in general, and how witnessing is brought about, would make a more solid case for understanding how democracy is transformed.

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Section: A the Economy Of Truth In The It Community's Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Trust in internet election observing the Norwegian decryption and counting ceremony

Markussen

Ronquillo

Schürmann

2014

2014 6th International Conference on Electronic Voting: Verifying the Vote (EVOTE)

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“…Stage 7 -Verifying (election) key generation: The smartphone displays the hash value 12 of the public key it computed during the distributed key generation protocol. The instructions for all election authorities are to compare the displayed value with the one displayed on the WBB.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…11 In the application the passphrase is called security phrase as pre-studies show that people do not know what passphrase means here. 12 In the application this hash value is called security code for the purpose of understandability. 13 The vote casting process is out of scope of our project.…”

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“…Elections are bound to rigorous legal requirements due to their high social impact. Apart from security requirements, transparency of the entire election process is of central importance for establishing trust in the election and its outcome [11], and its security needs to be communicated [12]. Therefore, the second goal of our research project is to explain the need for such an application, as well as the security properties and security models underlying the application.…”

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A Usable Android Application Implementing Distributed Cryptography for Election Authorities

Neumann

Kulyk

Volkamer

2014

2014 Ninth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

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Abstract-Although many electronic voting protocols have been proposed, their practical application faces various challenges. One of these challenges is, that these protocols require election authorities to perform complex tasks like generating keys in a distributed manner and decrypting votes in a distributed and verifiable manner. Although corresponding key generation and decryption protocols exist, they are not used in real-world elections for several reasons: The few existing implementations of these protocols and their corresponding interfaces are not designed for people with non technical background and thus not suitable for use by most election authorities. In addition, it is difficult to explain the security model of the protocols, but legal provisions generally require transparency. We implemented a smartphone application for election authorities featuring distributed key generation and verifiable distributed decryption of votes. In addition, we prepared education material throughout based on formulated metaphors for election authorities in order to explain the security of the application. We evaluated the usability of the application and understanding of the underlying security model, concluding that the application is usable for non-experts in computer science. While the participants were able to carry out the tasks, it became clear, that they did not have a clear understanding of the underlying security model, despite having viewed our educational material. We suggest improvements to this material as future work.

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“…Estonia is not the only country having evaluated Internet voting for politically relevant elections, yet it can certainly represent the whole category of government-sponsored Internet voting systems, having the longest history of development and usage of such systems. Moreover, comparative analyses show many similarities with other nations' alternatives [23,11,21]. The Estonian Internet voting system is meant to supplement the traditional methods of voting.…”

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Internet voting

Prandini

Ramilli

2012

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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More than a decade after the first enthusiastic attempts at deploying Internet voting, there is still only a single case of continued adoption for the election of a political body. In this paper we illustrate the motivations behind the apparent failure of a process that, at a first sight, looks desirable for many reasons. We analyze the most relevant efforts in the field, which can be grouped in two main lines: those grounded on a strong formal foundation, and those designed to achieve maximum participation. From the analysis, we derive a set of desirable features, classify the systems according to their ability to achieve them, and conclude that no system is currently able to strike a convincingly positive balance between them.

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Measures to establish trust in internet voting

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Trust in internet election observing the Norwegian decryption and counting ceremony

Trust in internet election observing the Norwegian decryption and counting ceremony

A Usable Android Application Implementing Distributed Cryptography for Election Authorities

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