Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology

Citation
"• Cryptographic Methods for Storing Ballots on a Voting Machine". J. Bethencourt, D. Boneh, and B. Waters (eds.), 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Conference, 2007.

Abstract
A direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machine must satisfy several requirements to ensure voter privacy and the integrity of the election. A recent proposal for a vote storage system due to Molnar et al. provides tamper-evidence properties while maintaining voter privacy by storing ballots on a programmable, read-only memory (PROM). We achieve the same properties and protect against additional threats of memory replacement through cryptographic techniques, without the use of special hardware. Our approach is based on a new cryptographic primitive called History-Hiding Append-Only Signatures.

Electronic downloads

• http://www.csl.sri.com/users/bwaters/publications/papers/vote_storage.pdf

• HTML

   <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/592.html"
  ><i>•	Cryptographic Methods for
  Storing Ballots on a Voting Machine</i></a>, J.
  Bethencourt, D. Boneh, and B. Waters (eds.), 14th Annual
  Network & Distributed System Security Conference, 2007.

• Plain text

   "•	Cryptographic Methods for Storing
  Ballots on a Voting Machine". J. Bethencourt, D. Boneh,
  and B. Waters (eds.), 14th Annual Network & Distributed
  System Security Conference, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @proceedings{BethencourtBonehWaters07_CryptographicMethodsForStoringBallotsOnVotingMachine,
      title = {•	Cryptographic Methods for Storing Ballots on a
                Voting Machine},
      editor = {J. Bethencourt, D. Boneh, and B. Waters},
      organization = {14th Annual Network \& Distributed System Security
                Conference},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {A direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machine
                must satisfy several requirements to ensure voter
                privacy and the integrity of the election. A
                recent proposal for a vote storage system due to
                Molnar et al. provides tamper-evidence properties
                while maintaining voter privacy by storing ballots
                on a programmable, read-only memory (PROM). We
                achieve the same properties and protect against
                additional threats of memory replacement through
                cryptographic techniques, without the use of
                special hardware. Our approach is based on a new
                cryptographic primitive called History-Hiding
                Append-Only Signatures. },
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/592.html}
  }
  

Posted by Jessica Gamble on 16 Mar 2009.
For additional information, see the Publications FAQ or contact webmaster at www truststc org.