Voting seminar 'Where's my vote?'
On Tuesday, 25th of August, 2009, we organised the evoting seminar "Where's my vote?" at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Program
| 13:00 | Peter Ryan - Pretty Good Democracy (joint work with
Vanessa Teague) I discuss the notion of voter-verifiability: the possibility for voters to confirm that their vote is accurately included in the tally without violating requirements of ballot privacy, coercion-resistance. I present a scheme that enhances the code voting approach to internet voting by providing “end-to-end” verifiability. |
| 13:40 | James Heather - It's All Very Well in Theory... This talk illustrates part of the gap between theory and practice by means of examining the hurdles a trial run of the Prêt à Voter system for student union elections at the University of Surry, UK came across. |
| 14:20 | Rop Gonggrijp -
The Trap Some ordered thoughts on why governments seem to invariably get stuck defending vendors of broken closed-source voting technology. |
| 15:00 | End of seminar |
| 16:00 | Dissertation defense of Hugo Jonker |
About the speakers
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Peter Ryan In February of 2009, Peter Ryan took up a position as Professor of Applied Security at the University of Luxembourg. He pioneered the application of process algebras to modelling and analysis of secure systems and initiated and led the project that developed the process algebra (CSP) and model-checking approach to the analysis of security protocols. He has published extensively on cryptography, cryptographic protocols, security policies, mathematical models of computer security and, most recently, high assurance voting systems. He is the creator of the Prêt à Voter approach to verifiable voting. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, he was a Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle University. He has worked at GCHQ, the Defence Research Agency, the Stanford Research Institute in Cambridge and the Software Engineering Institute, CMU Pittsburgh. He holds a PhD in mathematical physics from the University of London. |
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James Heather |
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Rop Gonggrijp In the late eighties, Rop Gonggrijp was editor and publisher of the hacker-magazine Hack-Tic. In 1993 he, together with others, founded the well-known dutch Internet Service Provider XS4ALL. Right now he co-owns a company that creates secure telephones. Apart from this, he has been an activist in matters where technology and society touch. Most recently he has been active against electronic voting machines. |