Verifying Properties in Electronic Voting Protocols
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Computer Science
Abstract
Electronic voting promises the possibility of a convenient, efficient and secure facility for recording and tallying votes, and to offer security guarantees not available on paper-based systems (such as voter verification of the election). But it also carries the potential of making abuse easier to perform undetectably and at a large scale, and therefore rigorous security analysis is essential.The research will analyse existing voting protocols defined in the literature in terms of the formalisations of properties previously undertaken by the investigator and the named visitor.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Mark Ryan (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Delaune S
(2009)
Verifying privacy-type properties of electronic voting protocols
in Journal of Computer Security
Jia Liu
(2007)
Symbolic Bisimulation for the Applied Pi-Calculus
Stephanie Delaune
(2007)
Symbolic bisimulation for the applied pi calculus
in FSTTCS 2007
Title | Online voting video |
Description | Video about online internet voting. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Impact | None yet. |
URL | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI7IHtHpwf4 |
Description | Formal characterisation of the coercion-resistance property of electronic voting protocols. Analysis of existing protocols in terms of said characterisation. Development of automated techniques for said analysis. |
Exploitation Route | Research can be used to inform partner companies that make voting systems, such as Opt2Vote and Electoral Reform Services. Research can be used to inform partner UK government departments such as Ministry of Justice. |
Sectors | Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Financial Services and Management Consultancy Government Democracy and Justice Security and Diplomacy Other |
Description | Instigated a new field of formal methods analysis of electronic voting systems, which has been taken up by several other groups around the world. Our papers in this area have been cited over 461 times. Beneficiaries: Democratists, computer scientists Contribution Method: Instigated a new field of formal methods analysis of electronic voting systems, which has been taken up by several other groups around the world. Our papers in this area have been cited over 461 times. |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy,Other |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |