<head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Professor Byron Becker, UWO computer science,said in public that electronic voting systems will always be able to be hacked. </div> <p style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</p> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Bob Jonkman</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 24, 2017 11:29 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>Fair Vote Waterloo Region Discussion; KWCrypto@sobac.com</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Monday at 2:30pm: UofW CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy: Josh Benaloh — Elections with both Privacy and Integrity</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>The video of Josh Benaloh's lecture is now available:<br><br>https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/events/20170313-Benaloh.mp4<br><br>Electronic voting with homomorphic encryption is an interesting<br>premise. Aside from the examples Benaloh mentions near the end of the<br>lecture, none of the e-voting schemes I've seen use any of these<br>techniques, and so are all fundamentally flawed.<br><br>I suspect the public or election officials will be resistant to<br>accepting the changes needed to voting procedures to properly<br>implement electronic voting. It may even be the case that some<br>techniques (issuing "fake" ballots") may be illegal under today's<br>election laws.<br><br>But one thing is clear: E-voting naively implemented as it is today<br>preserves neither the privacy nor integrity of the election.<br><br>- --Bob.<br><br><br>On 2017-03-12 02:54 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:<br>> Here's an interesting intersection of two of my interests:<br>> Electoral Reform and Cryptography:<br>> <br>> https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/speakers/20170314-Benaloh<br>> <br>>> == Elections with both Privacy and Integrity == Josh Benaloh, <br>>> Microsoft Research<br>> <br>>> March 13, 2017 2:30pm, in DC 1304<br>> <br>>> Abstract<br>> <br>>> Verifiable election technologies enable secret-ballot elections<br>>> to be conducted in such a way as to allow individual voters to<br>>> check that their votes have been properly counted—without<br>>> compromising privacy or subjecting themselves to coercion. These<br>>> technologies eliminate the need to place trust in equipment,<br>>> vendors, or even election officials.<br>> <br>>> This talk will describe the ideas and mechanisms that make <br>>> verifiable elections possible and examine some of the <br>>> instantiations and deployments. We can have elections that both <br>>> preserve voter privacy and achieve strong, publicly-verifiable <br>>> integrity.<br>> <br>>> Bio<br>> <br>>> Josh Benaloh is Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research and an<br>>> elected director of the International Association for<br>>> Cryptologic Research. He earned an S.B. from the Massachusetts<br>>> Institute of Technology and M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from<br>>> Yale University where his 1987 dissertation 'Verifiable<br>>> Secret-Ballot Elections' introduced the first use of homomorphic<br>>> encryption. Dr. Benaloh spent three years as a postdoctoral<br>>> fellow at the University of Toronto and nearly five years as an<br>>> Assistant Professor at Clarkson University before joining<br>>> Microsoft where his research focuses on multi-party protocols,<br>>> elections, and crypto policy.<br>> <br>>> Outside of cryptography, Dr. Benaloh recently completed two<br>>> years as chair of the Citizen Oversight Panel for the Sound<br>>> Transit agency which is currently spending about $1 billion per<br>>> year developing transit infrastructure in the Seattle region. He<br>>> has also authored numerous puzzles for Seattle area puzzle events<br>>> and competitions.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br><br>- -- <br><br><br>- --<br>Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413<br>SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/<br>Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting<br>GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA<br><br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v2<br>Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability<br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAljVOwgACgkQuRKJsNLM5eoF3QCdEHwPy8ATd0j5gNcTn+tow+pd<br>5XUAn32Qhe1LybUkiOAmt1JxQJrfFy84<br>=QCUR<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This is the fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br>Post a message: fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org<br>Unsubscribe: http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org<br></div></body>