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Helios Voting System — Launched!

Filed under: crypto, security, voting, web — August 1, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

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:

http://www.heliosvoting.org

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.

3 Comments »

  1. Whirlycott / Philip Jacob » Helios Voting System:

    [...] 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 [...]

  2. Eric Hanchrow:

    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.

  3. ben:

    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!

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