Design and Implementation of a Practical Security-Conscious Electronic Polling System

Authors

Lorrie Faith Cranor, Washington University in St Louis
Ron K. Cytron, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1996-01-01

Filename

WUCS-96-02.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-96-02

Abstract

We present the design and implementation of Sensus, a practical, secure and private system for conducting surveys and elections over computer networks. Expanding on the work of Fujioka, Okamoto, and Ohta, Sensus uses blind signatures to ensure that only registered voters can vote and that each registered voter only votes once, while at the same time maintaining voters' privacy. Sensus allows voters to verify independently that their votes were counted correctly, and anonymously challenge the results should their votes be miscounted. We outline seven desirable properties of voting systems and show that Sensus satisfied these properties well, in some cases better than traditional voting systems.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7PV6HK5

Recommended Citation

Cranor, Lorrie Faith and Cytron, Ron K., "Design and Implementation of a Practical Security-Conscious Electronic Polling System" Report Number: WUCS-96-02 (1996). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/394