Authentication for Remote Voting
Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Security Systems. 6 April 2003.
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Authentication is an important part of the voting process, both for the
voting system authenticating the human as a legitimate voter without
sacrificing secret balloting, and for the voter authenticating the vote
recorder. Voters want the capability to vote remotely, but this makes
both directions of authentication more difficult. Human factors are a
crucial part of the authentication process. In particular, the system
for authenticating the vote recorder must be designed in a way that
ensures the human cannot be easily tricked into trusting an illegitimate
recorder and so that the voter has confidence in the integrity of the
voting process. In this paper, we discuss some of the issues associated
with Internet-based remote voting and argue that visual cryptography
offers a promising way to provide both satisfactory authentication and
secret ballot guarantees.
Keywords: Authentication, human factors, human-computer interaction, voting, security.
Complete Paper (4 pages)
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