{"id":483,"date":"2004-11-11T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/11\/11\/voting-performance-standards\/"},"modified":"2004-11-11T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2004-11-11T16:41:14","slug":"voting-performance-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/11\/11\/voting-performance-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Performance Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a188'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting with some discussions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iacr.org\/conferences\/crypto2004\/\">Crypto 2004<\/a>, a few of us cryptographers discussed setting up new standards for evaluating voting systems.<\/p>\n<p>We were specifically worried about the design-oriented, pass\/fail nature of current standards. Instead, we want performance-oriented, multi-dimensional tests. Basically, instead of saying &#8220;machine X is good for voting because it uses DES encryption,&#8221; a fairly useless statement, we want a testing authority to say &#8220;machine X receives a 7.6 score on confidentiality and a 3.5 score on usability because 95% of users maintained voter secrecy and 40% of users were able to express their vote correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we got together and wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/vspr.org\/cacm-vspr-article.pdf\">paper in this month&#8217;s Communications of the ACM<\/a>. If you want to learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/vspr.org\">visit the web site and sign up to the newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with some discussions at Crypto 2004, a few of us cryptographers discussed setting up new standards for evaluating voting systems. We were specifically worried about the design-oriented, pass\/fail nature of current standards. Instead, we want performance-oriented, multi-dimensional tests. Basically, instead of saying &#8220;machine X is good for voting because it uses DES encryption,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}