18-07-2012, 11:12 AM
Online Voting Project.
T-Voting.pdf (Size: 290.01 KB / Downloads: 45)
Introduction.
Since 2001 T-Systems made research on secure online voting systems in cooperation with the PTB and other prominent institutes under the support of the Federal Ministry of EconomicsLast year the voting systems developed in the W.I.E.N. project underwent a security review by the Technical University of Darmstadt Because of some security flaws the whole architecture of the system was rebuild with regard to special cryptological add-on modules and the optimization of the client-server communication
Online Voting Project System.
Technically laborious recovery procedure in case of incidents
The protocol is based on the use of blind signatures and other cryptographic procedures but remains time-consuming, laborious and insecure in some important aspects
That’s why T-Systems developed by means of the TU Darmstadt a new voting scheme, which is simpler and easier to implement and offers a better security level
The main principles of the former architecture have remained thesame, like the use of blinding or the division of powers
Online Voting Project.Adherence to Voting Legislation Principles.
The five main voting legislation principles in Germany for publicly regulated elections are•universality(everyone has the same rights to vote)•directness(everyone has to vote by himself without deputies)•freedom(everyone should vote without impact of any kind)•equality(everyone's vote has the same weight)•secrecy(everyone must cast his vote unobserved)
Apart from that, the accessibilitytothepublicin the voting procedure plays a special role, which means that the voting result can be monitored, although casting of the votes has to be secret as a matter of course. Accessibility to the public is necessary for all voting stages and is performed by the electoral committee, but also by any member of the public.
Problem: Remote Internet Voting removes the location of voting from public