This dissertation deals with the field of usable security, particularly in the contexts of online
authentication and verifiable voting systems. The ever-expanding role of online accounts in …

Elections are the foundations of democracy. To uphold democratic principles, researchers
have proposed systems that ensure the integrity of elections. It is a highly interdisciplinary …

The last decade, electronic voting has evolved from being a mean of counting votes to also
offer the possibility of electronically casting votes. From recording votes using punch cards …

In a world where a high percentage of citizens carry a smart phone or iPod and most
households have one or more computers, it is difficult to understand why we have not been …

Electronic voting promises the possibility of a convenient, efficient and secure facility for
recording and tallying votes in an election. Recently highlighted inadequacies of …

Electryo is a paper-based voting protocol that implements the Selene mechanism for
individual verifiability. This short paper aims to provide the first formal model of Electryo, with …

In this paper, we discuss one particular feature of Internet voting, verifiability, against the
background of scientific literature and experiments in the Netherlands. In order to …

Electronic voting consistently fails to supplant conventional paper ballot due to a plethora of
security shortcomings. Not only are traditional voting methods mediocre in terms of …

We propose a new voting scheme, BeleniosRF, that offers both receipt-freeness and end-to-
end verifiability. It is receipt-free in a strong sense, meaning that even dishonest voters …

Electronic voting has seen a surge of growth in the US over the past five years; yet many
questions have been raised about the trustworthiness of today's e-voting systems. One …