Rivest Weighs In on E-Voting Security

Considering that security and electronic voting go hand-in-hand, it was only a matter of time before computer security legend Ron Rivest (the "R" of "RSA") got involved.

In his paper The ThreeBallot Voting System, Rivest (who is a recipient of Dr. Dobb's Excellence In Programming Award and inventor of the RC5 Encryption algorithm), focuses on providing a high degree of verifiability, in which "voters can verify that their votes are cast as intended, and can check that their vote is included in the final tally."

Rivest claims that this is the first time such end-to-end verifiability has been obtained without encryption.

This is an interesting and important paper by a security expert who knows what he is talking about.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:31 AM  Permalink