[7215] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Electronic elections.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Helger Lipmaa)
Sat May 27 16:14:41 2000
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:18:20 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Helger Lipmaa <helger@tcm.hut.fi>
To: Per Kangru <kangru@roxen.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, "coderpunks@toad.com" <coderpunks@toad.com>
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On Sat, 27 May 2000, Per Kangru wrote:
> So Im looking for a system that will give me the following:
>
> * Ease of use for non computer experts.
>
> * Secure, i.e. one vote per person.
>
> * Anonymous voting, i.e. no conection between a certain vote and a certain
> person.
>
> * Shall produce good statistics and be able to perform sanity checks of
> the data, i.e. if any cheating is undertaken it shall be easy to find
> out.
>
> * Easy to administrate, shall be able to handle both parties and
> persons. (A vote can be casted both on a party and on a special person
> in that party)
Cryptographers are usually also concerned with the possibility that the
server is corrupted. Your solution does not address that.
My own a little bit (i.e. more than one year) survey 'for dummies' on
e-voting is available at
http://www.cc.ioc.ee/training/unesco/onlinegov/security/vote.html.
Helger Lipmaa
http://www.tcm.hut.fi/~helger
