About this event
As part of the Lecture Series on Cyber Security, we are happy to announce the French cyber security expert, Véronique Cortier (research director), from the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), LORIA laboratory (Nancy, France), will give the following lecture: “Challenges and Solutions in Electronic Voting” on March 4, 2024. 👩💻
Abstract
Electronic voting aims to achieve the same properties as traditional paper-based voting. Even when voters vote from their homes, they should be given the same guarantees, without having to trust the election authorities, the voting infrastructure, and/or the Internet network. The two main security goals are vote privacy: no one should know how I voted; and verifiability: a voter should be able to check that the votes have been properly counted. In more hostile environments, electronic voting should further protect voters against vote buying or the corruption of their voting devices.
In this talk, we will explore how these properties can be realised and attacked. We will in particular illustrate our presentation with the Belenios protocol and the French Legislative 2022 elections.
Biography
Véronique Cortier is CNRS research director at Loria (Nancy, France). In 2003, she received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, from which she graduated. Her research focuses on formal verification of security protocols, in particular e-voting, using formal techniques or provable security. She was awarded an ERC starting grant in 2010, she received the INRIA – Académie des Sciences Young Researcher award in 2015 and the silver CNRS medal in 2022.