[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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That's why it's important to build integrity into an electronic voting
system. If the votes are changed, it will be apparent when the actual
votes are published, online or in newspapers. Everyone will be able to
verify that their vote was correctly counted for the candidates they
selected. How to preserve privacy while still being able to publicly
verify the votes was the topic of the lecture.

- --Bob.


On 2017-03-24 11:56 AM, cdcampbell9 at gmail.com wrote:
> Professor Byron Becker, UWO computer science,said in public that
> electronic voting systems will always be able to be hacked.
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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> *From: *Bob Jonkman *Sent: *Friday, March 24, 2017 11:29 AM *To:
> *Fair Vote Waterloo Region Discussion; KWCrypto at sobac.com *Reply
> To: *FVC Waterloo Region Discussion *Subject: *Re: [fvc-wat-disc]
> Monday at 2:30pm: UofW CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy: Josh
> Benaloh — Elections with both Privacy and Integrity
> 
> 
> The video of Josh Benaloh's lecture is now available:
> 
> https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/events/20170313-Benaloh.mp4
> 
> Electronic voting with homomorphic encryption is an interesting 
> premise. Aside from the examples Benaloh mentions near the end of
> the lecture, none of the e-voting schemes I've seen use any of
> these techniques, and so are all fundamentally flawed.
> 
> I suspect the public or election officials will be resistant to 
> accepting the changes needed to voting procedures to properly 
> implement electronic voting. It may even be the case that some 
> techniques (issuing "fake" ballots") may be illegal under today's 
> election laws.
> 
> But one thing is clear: E-voting naively implemented as it is
> today preserves neither the privacy nor integrity of the election.
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> 
> On 2017-03-12 02:54 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> Here's an interesting intersection of two of my interests: 
>> Electoral Reform and Cryptography:
> 
>> https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/speakers/20170314-Benaloh
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>>> == 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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