[fvc-wat-disc] Monday at 2:30pm: UofW CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy: Josh Benaloh — Elections with both Privacy and Integrity

[Bob Jonkman]

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Here's an interesting intersection of two of my interests: Electoral
Reform and Cryptography:

https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/speakers/20170314-Benaloh

> == Elections with both Privacy and Integrity  == Josh Benaloh,
> Microsoft Research
> 
> March 13, 2017 2:30pm, in DC 1304
> 
> Abstract
> 
> Verifiable election technologies enable secret-ballot elections to 
> be conducted in such a way as to allow individual voters to check
> that their votes have been properly counted—without compromising 
> privacy or subjecting themselves to coercion. These technologies 
> eliminate the need to place trust in equipment, vendors, or even 
> election officials.
> 
> This talk will describe the ideas and mechanisms that make 
> verifiable elections possible and examine some of the
> instantiations and deployments. We can have elections that both
> preserve voter privacy and achieve strong, publicly-verifiable
> integrity.
> 
> Bio
> 
> Josh Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an 
> elected director of the International Association for Cryptologic 
> Research. He earned an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of 
> Technology and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale
> University where his 1987 dissertation 'Verifiable Secret-Ballot
> Elections' introduced the first use of homomorphic encryption. Dr.
> Benaloh spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the
> University of Toronto and nearly five years as an Assistant
> Professor at Clarkson University before joining Microsoft where his
> research focuses on multi-party protocols, elections, and crypto
> policy.
> 
> Outside of cryptography, Dr. Benaloh recently completed two years
> as chair of the Citizen Oversight Panel for the Sound Transit
> agency which is currently spending about $1 billion per year
> developing transit infrastructure in the Seattle region. He has
> also authored numerous puzzles for Seattle area puzzle events and
> competitions.



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