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Helios Verification: To Alleviate, or to Nominate: Is That The Question, Or Shall We Have Both?

Neumann, Stephan ; Olembo, Maina ; Renaud, Karen ; Volkamer, Melanie
Hrsg.: Kö, Andrea ; Francesconi, Enrico (2014)
Helios Verification: To Alleviate, or to Nominate: Is That The Question, Or Shall We Have Both?
München
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Helios is an end-to-end verifiable remote electronic voting system which has been used for elections in academic contexts. It allows voters to verify that their vote was cast, and included in the final tally, as intended. User studies have shown that voters are unlikely to perform this verification, probably due to the effortful and cumbersome manual steps that are required by the system. To address this challenge, we propose, in this paper, two improvements: the first is to ameliorate the cumbersome nature of the verification process as much as possible. We offer two suggestions for doing this. To accommodate voters who have no interest in verifying, we propose a further improvement: delegation. This will allow voters to nominate a trusted third party to perform the verification on their behalf as and when they cast their vote. Hence no extra effort is required, and we can exploit existing trust in public institutions to provide voters with the assurance that the voting process is indeed honest and above board. In addition to providing end-to-end verifiability in a less effortful manner, we provide verifiability as well, for voters who do not wish to verify their own votes.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2014
Herausgeber: Kö, Andrea ; Francesconi, Enrico
Autor(en): Neumann, Stephan ; Olembo, Maina ; Renaud, Karen ; Volkamer, Melanie
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Helios Verification: To Alleviate, or to Nominate: Is That The Question, Or Shall We Have Both?
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: September 2014
Verlag: Springer
Buchtitel: 3rd International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Band einer Reihe: 8650
Veranstaltungsort: München
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Helios is an end-to-end verifiable remote electronic voting system which has been used for elections in academic contexts. It allows voters to verify that their vote was cast, and included in the final tally, as intended. User studies have shown that voters are unlikely to perform this verification, probably due to the effortful and cumbersome manual steps that are required by the system. To address this challenge, we propose, in this paper, two improvements: the first is to ameliorate the cumbersome nature of the verification process as much as possible. We offer two suggestions for doing this. To accommodate voters who have no interest in verifying, we propose a further improvement: delegation. This will allow voters to nominate a trusted third party to perform the verification on their behalf as and when they cast their vote. Hence no extra effort is required, and we can exploit existing trust in public institutions to provide voters with the assurance that the voting process is indeed honest and above board. In addition to providing end-to-end verifiability in a less effortful manner, we provide verifiability as well, for voters who do not wish to verify their own votes.

Freie Schlagworte: Security, Usability and Society;Secure Data
ID-Nummer: TUD-CS-2014-0104
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren > CASED – Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt
20 Fachbereich Informatik > SECUSO - Security, Usability and Society
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Theoretische Informatik - Kryptographie und Computeralgebra
Profilbereiche > Cybersicherheit (CYSEC)
LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren
20 Fachbereich Informatik
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