Mobile Voting -- Still Too Risky?

Sven Heiberg; Kristjan Krips; Jan Willemson

Paper 2021/787 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2021/787 ↗

Mobile Voting -- Still Too Risky?

Sven Heiberg

Kristjan Krips

Jan Willemson

Abstract

This paper studies the challenges of creating a mobile device based voting client. We discuss the issues related to standalone and mobile browser based voting applications. In both cases we discuss the problems of vote privacy, integrity and voting channel availability. We conclude that neither of the options can currently achieve the level of security PC-based voting clients can provide, with the attack surface being larger in the case of mobile browser based voting application.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2021-06-14: last updated; 2021-06-14: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2021/787
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/787,
      author = {Sven Heiberg and Kristjan Krips and Jan Willemson},
      title = {Mobile Voting -- Still Too Risky?},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/787},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/787}
}