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Machine-checked proofs for electronic voting: privacy and verifiability for Belenios

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We present a machine-checked security analysis of Belenios-a deployed voting protocol used already in more than 200 elections. Belenios extends Helios with an explicit registration authority to obtain eligibility guarantees. We offer two main results. First, we build upon a recent framework for proving ballot privacy in EasyCrypt. Inspired by our application to Belenios, we adapt and extend the privacy security notions to account for protocols that include a registration phase. Our analysis identifies a trust assumption which is missing in the existing (pen and paper) analysis of Belenios: ballot privacy does not hold if the registrar misbehaves, even if the role of the registrar is seemingly to provide eligibility guarantees. Second, we develop a novel framework for proving strong verifiability in EasyCrypt and apply it to Belenios. In the process, we clarify several aspects of the pen-and-paper proof, such as how to deal with revote policies. Together, our results yield the first machine-checked analysis of both ballot privacy and verifiability properties for a deployed electronic voting protocol. Perhaps more importantly, we identify several issues regarding the applicability of existing definitions of privacy and verifiability to systems other than Helios. While we show how to adapt the definitions to the particular case of Belenios, our findings indicate the need for more general security notions for electronic voting protocols with registration authorities.
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hal-01900081 , version 1 (20-10-2018)

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Véronique Cortier, Constantin Catalin Dragan, François Dupressoir, Bogdan Warinschi. Machine-checked proofs for electronic voting: privacy and verifiability for Belenios. CSF'2018 - 31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Jul 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01900081⟩
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