Title :
Introducing Verifiability in the POLYAS Remote Electronic Voting System
Author :
Olembo, Maina M. ; Schmidt, Patrick ; Volkamer, Melanie
Author_Institution :
CASED, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
Remote electronic voting continues to attract attention. A greater number of election officials are opting to enable a remote electronic voting channel. More and more scientific papers have been published introducing or improving existing remote electronic voting protocols. However, while the scientific papers focus on different aspects of verifiability, most of the systems in use do not provide verifiability. This gap is closed in this paper by extending a widely used remote electronic voting system, the POLYAS system, to provide verifiability. This approach has been tested in the 2010 election of the German Society for Computer Scientists and will be applied in future elections.
Keywords :
government data processing; security of data; German Society for Computer Scientists; POLYAS remote electronic voting system; remote electronic voting protocols; verifiability; Cryptography; Databases; Electronic voting systems; Nominations and elections; Protocols; Servers; Communication System Security; Cryptography; Data Security; Information Security; Security;
Conference_Titel :
Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2011 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0979-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4485-4
DOI :
10.1109/ARES.2011.26
