Internet voting by CHvote: lessons learnt and future work

<!--HTML--><p>This talk will introduce some of the desirable security properties in a democratic election / referendum process, and present the challenges they imply in the context of internet voting. In light of those elements, we will discuss a couple of the lessons learnt over the roughly 14 years of experience offering internet voting in Geneva. As a third subtopic, we will get an overview of the new federal requirements, which outline the road for improvement.</p> <p>Finally, this will allow us to present a bird's eye perspective on the new cryptographic protocol for a verifiable internet voting system which we have been working on with the evoting group at the Berner Fachhochschule, which is scheduled to be used in 2019.</p> <p><strong>About the speaker</strong></p> <p>Thomas worked with the CERN Computer Security team in 2010, writing his EPFL master studies thesis, on the topic of static source code analysis. Since then, he spent a couple of years as a Java Consultant, before joining the State of Geneva as a developer on the internet voting system.</p> <p>He is now the in house expert on cryptographic voting protocols.</p>