Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting System

Michael R. Clarkson
Stephen Chong
Andrew C. Myers

Cornell University

2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, USA

Abstract:

Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-­resistant, univers­ally and voter verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and implement­ation of Civitas. Assurance is established in the design through security proofs, and in the implementation through information-­flow security analysis. Experimental results give a quantitative evaluation of the tradeoffs between time, cost, and security.

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