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Protection Profile for Secure E-Voting Systems

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In this paper, we propose a protection profile for e-voting systems. Currently, there are three protection profiles for e-voting systems, BSI-PP-0031 in Germany, PP-CIVIS in France, and IEEE P1583 in USA. Although these protection profiles consider the overall security requirements for e-voting systems, they did not consider the voter verifiable audit trail. The voter verifiable audit trail allows voters to verify that their votes were captured correctly. Moreover, it provides a means to audit the stored electronic results, and to detect possible election fraud. Today, several voter verifiable audit trail e-voting systems already exist in the market, and used in public elections. However, a protection profile does not reflect this situation. Therefore, it is required that a protection profile for e-voting systems should consider the voter verifiability. To accomplish this, we propose a protection profile considering the voter verifiability with the existing protection profiles, and then discuss voter verifiability issues related to the electoral process. The proposed protection profile can be used to increase reliability of the entire e-voting process and tabulation result.

This work was supported by the University IT Research Center Project funded by the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication.

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  1. Information Security Group, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 440-746, Korea

    Kwangwoo Lee, Yunho Lee, Dongho Won & Seungjoo Kim

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  1. Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, 646 Eupnae-ri, Shinchang-myun, Asan-si, 336-745, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

    Jin Kwak

  2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 469 Bukit Timah Road, 259756, Singapore

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  3. Internet and Security Policy Division, Korea Internet and Security Agency, Daedong B/D, Garak-dong 79-3, Songpa-gu, 138-950, Seoul, Korea

    Yoojae Won

  4. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK

    Guilin Wang

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Lee, K., Lee, Y., Won, D., Kim, S. (2010). Protection Profile for Secure E-Voting Systems. In: Kwak, J., Deng, R.H., Won, Y., Wang, G. (eds) Information Security, Practice and Experience. ISPEC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12827-1_28

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