Vote Early, Vote Often, and VoteHere: A Security Analysis of VoteHere
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Abstract:
Recently there has been much academic and popular discourse about sociological and political ramications conducting public elections over the Internet. According to the many groups and individuals wishing to prot from online voting, the technical problems are solved, and only the political and sociological ones need debate. However, this is far from reality. There currently exist signicant, insurmountable technical hurdles which make an adequately secure and private Internet voting system impossible. This thesis demonstrates the many potential security and privacy problems with one of the most widely used systems, VoteHere from VoteHere.net. I rst present background information on voting, cryptographic voting protocols, and available system implementations. I then present FaSSAMM, the Fairly Simple Security Analysis and Modeling Methodology, a technique for easily conducting security analyses. This process is then used to analyze the documented VoteHere system for vulnerabilities. The result is an easy to understand demonstration of security problems with Internet voting which can be easily extended or detailed further. After conducting this security analysis, I believe even more adamantly that Internet voting should not be used for governmental elections now or in the near future. 1
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