Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System

[Joshua N Pritikin]

Switzerland is about to have a national election with electronic voting,
overseen by Swiss Post; e-voting is a terrible idea and the general
consensus among security experts who don't work for e-voting vendors is
that it shouldn't be attempted, but if you put out an RFP for magic
beans, someone will always show up to sell you magic beans, whether or
not magic beans exist.

Swiss Post contracted with Barcelona firm Scytl to build the system,
then consulted with outside security experts and KPMG to audit the
system, and then announced a bug-bounty program that would allow people
who promised to only disclose defects on Swiss Post's terms to look at
some of the source code.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/13/principal-agent-problems.html

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Joshua N. Pritikin, Ph.D.
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
Virginia Commonwealth University
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