Votinbox - a voting system based on smart cards.ppt

Votinbox - a voting system based on smart cards Sébastien Canard - France Télécom Hervé Sibert - France Télécom Agenda Introduction Overview of the system Main properties Prototype implementation Conclusion Agenda Introduction Overview of the system Main properties Prototype implementation Conclusion Introduction (1) Off-line vs. on-line vote On-line vote = distant vote using a PC or a mobile phone Off-line vote (using a voting machine) French context On-line vote assimilated to absentee vote (forbidden in France since 1975) Off-line vote Recent deployment Voting blackboxes quite usual now Use cryptography to secure the system e-Poll, e-Poll2 based on blind signatures e-Poll2 experimented during the vote on the EC Constitution Introduction (2) A joint work between and France Telecom cryptographic algorithms and architecture ST smart card technology and knowledge Objectives Develop an e-Voting system based on smart cards Put the main cryptographic tools inside the card, so as to have the voter control his own privacy Prove the feasibility of implementating complex algorithms inside smart cards Take into account countries specifics Ballot anonymity revocation (UK) Elections can last several days (Czech Republic) … Agenda Introduction Overview of the system Main properties Prototype implementation Conclusion Overview of the system (1) Framework Off-line vote in a polling station, using a voting machine One voting card is used for several elections The attendance is done by the smart card There is no handwritten attendance Design of the smart card The smart card is designed to authorize only one vote per election The ballot is signed using a list signature scheme each card uses its own secret key to enable the detection of double vote all cards also share a common private key, used to prove the authenticity of the vote (as for group signatures) Overview of the system (2) - The actors Voters Register at Registration Centers Have their card personalized by the Smar