| Authors: | Lambrinoudakis C., Kokolakis S., Karyda M., Tsoumas V., Gritzalis D., Katsikas S. |
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| Title: | Electronic Voting Systems: Security Implications of the Administrative Workflow |
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| Conference: | 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), W06: International Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (TrustBus) |
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| Ed: | No |
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| Eds: | No |
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| Pages: | 467-471 |
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| To appear: | No |
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| Month: | September |
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| Year: | 2003 |
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| Place: | Prague, Czech |
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| Pubisher: | IEEE Computer Society Press |
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| File name: | B4.pdf##^^&&771678170.pdf |
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| Abstract: | With the rapid growth of the Internet, online voting
appears to be a reasonable alternative to conventional
elections and other opinion expressing processes. Current
research focuses on designing and building “voting protocols”
that can support the voting process, while implementing
the security mechanisms required for preventing
fraud and protecting voter's privacy. However, not much
attention has been paid to the administrative part of an
electronic voting system that supports the actors of the
system. Possible “security gaps” in the administrative
workflow may result in deteriorating the overall security
level of the system, even if the voting protocol implemented
by the system succeeds to fully comply with the security
requirements set for voting. To this direction, this paper
describes the responsibilities and privileges of the actors
involved in the electronic voting process. The description
of the role of each actor, together with the clear
indication of what each actor is expected - and thus allowed
- to do with the system, formulate an operational
framework that complements the technological security
features of the system and allows us to talk about “secure
electronic voting systems”. |
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