I just gave my talk at Usenix Security on Helios, my new web-based voting system that supports cryptographic auditing. Since it’s web-based, you don’t want to use this for elections where coercion is a serious concern. But if you’re running an online election for your club, software community, etc.., it’s perfect.
Just go to:
Oh, and you need Firefox 3 for now (and for you Linux geeks, you also need the Java plugin.)
The source code is available at github under the GPL v3.
Benlog 
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5 responses to “Helios Voting System — Launched!”
[…] launched this new Helios Voting System earlier today. I heard him talk about it once and will be very interested to dig in to the code […]
I’d like to play with it, but every time I hit the “Create” button, it pops up an error box that says “Make sure you’ve entered correct start and end dates”. I can’t get past that page.
I’d like to play with it, but every time I hit the “Create” button, it pops up an error box that says “Make sure you’ve entered correct start and end dates”. I can’t get past that page.
Hi Eric,
A few people have been getting that error, so I removed the start and end date fields for now since I’m not (yet) enforcing them anyways. Try it now!
Hi Eric,
A few people have been getting that error, so I removed the start and end date fields for now since I’m not (yet) enforcing them anyways. Try it now!