EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jordi Puiggali
Organization : | Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
Section Comments
Section : | A1D
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Comment : | [Volume I, Appendix D] Comments on Cryptographic Characteristics 2.1.10 The cryptographic software in independent verification voting systems is approved by the U.S. Government's Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) as applicable. We strongly believe that cryptographic algorithms must be publicly available and checked by the cryptographic community. We must discourage the use of proprietary algorithms that are kept secret to protect its security. As a result, we suggest to expand the requirement as follows: 2.1.10 The cryptographic software in independent verification voting systems is approved by the U.S. Government's Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) as applicable. Cryptographic algorithms shall be publicly available and its security checked by the cryptographic community.