[clug] e-voting on Science Show

[Adam Baxter]

Audio is up now too
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/12/ssw_20091212_1245.mp3

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:19 PM, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> The ABC Science Show had an interesting piece on secure electronic
> voting today.
>
> Dr James Heather of Surrey.
> (PhD 2000. "Oh! Is it really you?--Using rank functions to verify
> authentication protocols."
>
> <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2768853.htm>
> <http://www.cs.surrey.ac.uk/FMS/People/J.Heather/index.html>
>
> They've built a working "Prêt à Voter" system.
> Printed forms, marked in 'pencil' and torn in half after voting.
> Randomised candidate list of the left, vote on the right - which is torn
> off and scanned (franked & returned to voter), while candidate list is
> shredded.
>
> The trick is a crypto-encoded number printed on the part kept.
>
> Needs a number of co-operating 'tellers' to recover the unencrypted value.
> Voters can verify on-line their vote against their printed copy.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prêt_à_Voter>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems>
>
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