Threat Analysis of Cryptographic Election Schemes
Peter Y. A. Ryan, Thea Peacock · 2006
We discuss some vulnerabilities, threats and counter-measures for voter-verifiable, cryptographic election schemes: Chaum [1], Neff [7] and Prêt à Voter schemes [2]. Our analysis shows that such schemes are potentially prey to a wide variety of threats, both technical and sociotechnical. On the other hand, counter-measures can be deployed to all the threats identified. This paper strives to take initial steps towards a more systematic therat analysis for such schemes. We briefly address the issue of how to ensure such threat analyses are as systematic and complete as possible. 1