Category Archives: press

Multi-Factor, maybe, but is it really harder to phish?

Posted on July 17, 2009 by ben

MIT Tech Review asked me for a general comment on web authentication for their article covering new technology by Delfigo. There wasn’t enough time to look in depth at Delfigo’s technology, so my comments were about multi-factor authentication in general, … Continue reading →

Posted in press, security, web | 14 Comments

The Beautiful Magic of Cryptography

Posted on March 4, 2009 by ben

An election just wrapped up a few hours hours ago [public radio, le soir, RTL info]. The encrypted votes are stored in a redundant database, tied to each voter’s identifier, signed by the voting system, and available to all election … Continue reading →

Posted in crypto, policy, press, voting | 2 Comments

Trusting Trust and JavaScript

Posted on December 19, 2008 by ben

About 2 years ago, I tried to come up with a way to make OpenID and similarly single-sign-on systems less phishing-prone. That turned into BeamAuth (note to self: must publish the source code! Argg, so little time.) Minutes before I … Continue reading →

Posted in press, security, web | 1 Comment

Open-Audit Elections featured in Documentary

Posted on October 28, 2008 by ben

Richard Drury recently completed his documentary “Challenges for Democracy”, which covers a number of voting issues. His work is available for sale, so if you support this kind of in-depth reporting, please go buy his DVD! Richard has graciously agreed … Continue reading →

Posted in crypto, press, voting | Leave a comment

Salon on Voting

Posted on October 23, 2008 by ben

T’is election season, so the press is covering voting. Cyrus again, this time on Salon, and with a fantastic article, and not just because it mentions Helios.

Posted in crypto, press, voting | Leave a comment

The Economist Covers Voting

Posted on October 22, 2008 by ben

The Economist covers voting with cryptography, including some of my work. Good to see folks like the Economist paying attention… although the article misses the big point. Voting with cryptography is not about making your vote more secret. It’s about … Continue reading →

Posted in crypto, press, security, voting | 2 Comments

Scratch & Vote in the Press again!

Posted on November 6, 2006 by ben

Scratch & Vote is in the press thanks to Peter Weiss of Science News, who gives a very good overview of election technology issues. I’ve also posted the slides and latest paper for this work, which is joint with Ronald … Continue reading →

Posted in press, voting | Leave a comment

Scratch & Vote in the Press

Posted on August 9, 2006 by ben

MIT Technology Review just published a description of Scratch & Vote, the simple paper-based cryptographic voting scheme that Ron Rivest and I devised. It’s great to see growing interest in cryptographic voting from the scientific press, especially since the debate … Continue reading →

Posted in crypto, press, voting | 1 Comment