Category Archives: voting

Quick Thoughts from EVT Day #2

Posted on August 12, 2009 by ben

I gave an invited talk on crypto voting. Ran out of time, as usual. I need to find a way to describe this stuff more efficiently. Later, I also presented MarkPledge2, joint work with Andy Neff. Olivier de Marneffe presented … Continue reading →

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EVT/WOTE 2009, Day 1, Afternoon

Posted on August 10, 2009 by ben

I had to miss the first afternoon session of EVT/WOTE to attend WOOT (Workshop on Offensive Technologies) where Adam was presenting a paper Collin and I co-authored on hijacking bookmarklets (I wrote about this work a few months ago). Sadly, … Continue reading →

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EVT/WOTE 2009, Day 1, Morning

Posted on August 10, 2009 by ben

I’m at the Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Trustworthy Elections get-together (in Montreal). A few thoughts about the day and talks. Keynote Larry Norden from the Brennan Center is proposing a few ideas about what the voting community should … Continue reading →

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Back from Israel – talks and press

Posted on May 25, 2009 by ben

Just got back from a trip to Israel, mostly vacation but a couple of very fun days at the Electronic Voting Workshop organized by IDC Herzliya and Tel Aviv University. A great group of folks, some very lively discussion, and … Continue reading →

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Voting Workshop in Israel

Posted on May 5, 2009 by ben

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in Israel at a voting workshop organized by Ran Canetti, Alon Rosen, Ronitt Rubinfeld, and Assaf Jacob. I’ll be giving a talk on voting security and a second talk on Helios. The workshop … Continue reading →

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Helios @ CodeCon

Posted on April 17, 2009 by ben

I’m at CodeCon presenting my Helios voting system in a little bit. But first, there’s a talk on sequencing your own genome at home using basic kitchen equipment. It’s quite rare for me to be at one conference that combines … Continue reading →

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What Verifying an Election Means

Posted on April 6, 2009 by ben

The election at the Université Catholique de Louvain is over, the winner has been declared. So, what does it mean that this was, supposedly, a verifiable election? It means that you can go to the audit web site. There, you’ll … Continue reading →

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Open-Audit Voting means a Single Vote Counts

Posted on March 6, 2009 by ben

After an incredibly long and busy week of work for my colleagues Olivier Pereira and Olivier de Marneffe, the UCL election, based on Helios, has been verified and tallied. The trustees arrived earlier today and successfully decrypted the result. Students … Continue reading →

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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 →

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New Slides Posted

Posted on February 14, 2009 by ben

I’ve posted my talk slides from my voting talk at UCL, and my short voting talk at the Harvard College Fund Assembly. I’ve included copies on Slideshare, which is starting to get interesting. I see that I can create synced … Continue reading →

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