A Peered Bulletin Board for Robust Use in Verifiable Voting Systems
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The University of Surrey
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 9006217_2
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- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1109/CSF.2014.20
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- 2014 IEEE 27th Computer Security Foundations Symposium
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Citation count
- 15
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- Additional information
- This paper presents a novel design of a web bulletin board which provides robustness and distributed trust, solving an open problem of how to do this in practice. This is significant because although the bulletin board is a key feature of secure electronic voting systems, it had always been a theoretical entity. Our demonstration of correctness against an idealised specification provided the confidence to then proceed to a Java implementation which was used successfully in the Victorian State Election 2014; the first time worldwide that a fully verifiable electronic election system had been used in a large-scale politically binding election.
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- Non-English
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