The American election is in the news for all the wrong reasons. One of the claims by Donald Trump was his concern of rigging the poll by the opposite party
Internet Voting: Security Challenges
The American election is in the news for all the wrong reasons. One of the claims by Donald Trump was his concern of rigging the poll by the opposite party. At the same time, there is a potential threat that enemy countries manipulate the election. When manual voting transformed to electronic voting, the risk of manipulation raised to a certain extent, but the benefits of electronic voting override those.Especially, for rigging the election physical access to the machines required, although there are other attacking methods present, without physical access also. However, Internet voting made the life easier for voters, and more participation due to the convenience for them to vote from wherever they are.Although Internet voting is similar to any other online services including online banking, that was being available for users for a while, Internet voting yet to be proven secure fully. The most important aspect is that in online banking, the victim of a compromise recognizes a theft at some point. However, with voting, that is unlikely, as it is being kept confidential. Specification and feasibility assessment study for“end-to- end verifiable internet voting” which is published by US Vote Foundation. In addition to these malicious activities with internet voting, there are risks of malware infection (client-side) and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. It could bring down the whole election process if the enemy nation or parties target a DDoS attack on the Internet Voting system.
