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Civitas: Toward a Secure Voting System

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2008

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Clarkson, Michael R., Stephen Chong, Andrew C. Myers. 2008. Civitas: Toward a secure voting system. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: May 18-21, 2008, Oakland, California, 354-368. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society.

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Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-resistant, universally and voter verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and implementation of Civitas. Assurance is established in the design through security proofs, and in the implementation through information-flow security analysis. Experimental results give a quantitative evaluation of the tradeoffs between time, cost, and security.

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coercion resistance, cryptographic protocols, secure bulletin boards, verifiable elections, voter registration, electronic voting

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