Assessing the Procedural Security & Transparency Components of the Estonian Internet Voting System

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• Jason Nurse (Oxford)
• Thursday 26 January 2017, 11:00-12:00
• Sloman Lounge, School of Computer Science.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Andreea Radu.

The I-Voting system designed and implemented in Estonia is one of the first nationwide Internet voting systems. Since its creation, it has been met with praise but also with great scrutiny. Security concerns have been based on in-person election observations, code reviews and adversarial testing on system components. These concerns have led many to conclude that there are various ways in which insider threats and sophisticated external attacks, may compromise the system’s integrity and thus, the voting process. In this talk, we examine the procedural components of the I-Voting system, with an emphasis on the controls related to procedural security mechanisms, and system transparency measures. Through an approach grounded in primary and secondary data sources, including interviews with key Estonian election personnel, we investigate and assess the extent to which the present controls mitigate the actual security risks faced by the system.

This talk is part of the Computer Security Seminars series.

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