Some Results From the California Top To Bottom Review

Eric Rescorla

In Spring of 2007, the California Secretary of State convened a team of security researchers to review the electronic voting systems certified for use in California. We were provided with the source code for the systems as well as with access to the hardware. Serious and exploitable vulnerabilities were found in all the systems analyzed: Diebold, Hart, and Sequoia. We'll be discussing the effort as a whole, providing an overview of the issues that all the teams found, and then discussing in detail the system we studied, Hart InterCivic.

Joint work with Srinivas Inguva, Hovav Shacham, and Dan Wallach


6 Nov (Tuesday) at 1630 hrs

Gates 4B (opposite 490)