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What and Who
Electronic Voting: Risks and Research
Dan Wallach
Department of Computer Science,
Rice University, Houston, Texas
SWS Colloquium
Dan Wallach is an associate professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas and is the associate director
of NSF's ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and
Transparent Elections). A collaborative project involving six
institutions, ACCURATE is investigating software architectures,
tamper-resistant hardware, cryptographic protocols and verification
systems as applied to electronic voting systems. Wallach earned his
bachelor's at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD at
Princeton University. His research involves computer security and the
issues of building secure and robust software systems for the Internet.
Wallach has testified about voting security issues before government
bodies in the U.S., Mexico, and the European Union.
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4, AG 5, SWS
AG Audience
English
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Date, Time and Location
Friday, 13 October 2006
14:00
-- Not specified --
E1 4
019
Saarbrücken
Abstract
Hanging chads, among other issues with traditional voting systems, have
sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of
newer electronic voting systems. While computer scientists, for the most
part, have been warning of the perils of such action, vendors have forged
ahead with their products, claiming increased security, reliability, and
accuracy. Many municipalities have adopted electronic systems and the
number of deployed systems is rising. To the limited extent that
independent security analyses have been published, the results have raised
serious reservations about the quality of these systems to resist attacks.
This talk will describe problems we and other researchers have discovered
and will consider the limitations of the certification processes that
should have guaranteed some quality control. These issues, in turn, give
rise to a variety of interesting research problems that span computer
science, human factors, and public policy. In this talk, we will consider
how both established and open research in software engineering,
distributed systems, and cryptography can and should impact the next
generation of voting systems.
sparked great interest in managing the election process through the use of
newer electronic voting systems. While computer scientists, for the most
part, have been warning of the perils of such action, vendors have forged
ahead with their products, claiming increased security, reliability, and
accuracy. Many municipalities have adopted electronic systems and the
number of deployed systems is rising. To the limited extent that
independent security analyses have been published, the results have raised
serious reservations about the quality of these systems to resist attacks.
This talk will describe problems we and other researchers have discovered
and will consider the limitations of the certification processes that
should have guaranteed some quality control. These issues, in turn, give
rise to a variety of interesting research problems that span computer
science, human factors, and public policy. In this talk, we will consider
how both established and open research in software engineering,
distributed systems, and cryptography can and should impact the next
generation of voting systems.
Contact
Brigitta Hansen
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Carina Schmitt, 10/13/2006 12:24
Brigitta Hansen, 10/09/2006 10:23 -- Created document.
Brigitta Hansen, 10/09/2006 10:23 -- Created document.