EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Mertz, et al.
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Trusted Entity
Definition : |
Comment : | An entity, upon the truthfulness of whose assertions, and upon the integrity of whose actions, a Voting System's security is contingent. A vendor is a trusted entity to the extent that we are forced to trust that it has not, for example, incorporated a Trojan Horse into its voting system. The amount of trust reposed in an entity may be reduced by the appropriate use of public review procedures, public source control procedures, cryptographic signatures, and the like. A person who exercises a prerogative of a trusted entity is a "trusted person". This term makes no assertions concerning trustworthiness. Association: Security