Authentication for Remote Voting
- Authors
- Nathanael
Paul
David Evans
Aviel D. Rubin
Dan S. Wallach
- Abstract
- Authentication is an important part of the voting process,
both for the voting system authenticating the human as a legitimate voter
without sacrificing secret balloting, and for the voter authenticating the
vote recorder. Voters want the capability to vote remotely, but this makes
both directions of authentication more difficult. Human factors are a crucial
part of the authentication process. In particular, the system for authenticating
the vote recorder must be designed in a way that ensures the human cannot
be easily tricked into trusting an illegitimate recorder and so that the voter
has confidence in the integrity of the voting process. In this paper, we discuss
some of the issues associated with Internet-based remote voting and argue
that visual cryptography offers a promising way to provide both satisfactory
authentication and secret ballot guarantees.
- Published
- Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Security Systems,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 2003.
- Text
- PDF (296 kbytes)
Dan Wallach, CS
Department, Rice University
Last modified:
Thu 12-Jun-2003 16:56