Pool-site E-voting Security

Authors

  • Ciprian Ezeanu Cybernetics and Economic Informatics Faculty, The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

Keywords:

e-voting, security, pool-site, DRE, attack, BallotStation, VVPAT

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present e-voting procedure describing its advantages and disadvantages. Conventional security measures such as firewalls or SSL communications are necessary but not sufficient to guarantee the specific security requirements of e-voting. Besides these conventional security measures, it is also necessary to implement an additional layer of specialized security technology to address the specific risks posed by electronic voting and guarantee critical security requirements such as voters’ privacy, vote integrity and voter-verifiability. Analyzing the security of Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine it was observed the vulnerabilities of this machine to different classes of attacks like: vote-stealing attack, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack and injecting attack code.

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http://www.scytl.com/

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http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-hack-diabold-accuvote-ts.html

Feldman, A.J., Halderman, J.A., Felten, E.W., USENIX/Accurate Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT’07), Boston, 2007, USA

JMEDS, vol 1, no 2, 2009, Smart Cards and e-Commerce Solutions

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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

Ezeanu, C. (2009). Pool-site E-voting Security. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 1(2), 112-118. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Pool-site-E-voting-Security

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2009): Smart Cards and e-Commerce Solutions

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