Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
Despite setbacks in the early 2000s, electronic voting is back on the agenda. It is now widely accepted that modern cryptography plays a crucial role in allowing voters to ensure that their electronic vote is counted while maintaining its privacy and discouraging coercion. This project will investigate recent proposals for electronic voting and consider how suitable they are for Australian elections and other elections with complex voting rules.
Approaches
The focus of the project can be on the implementation/experimental aspects or on the cryptographic mechanisms. In either case the student must have mastered the basics of cryptography.
This project will take place in the Information Security Institute. You will have the opportunity to work in the Institute's lab on practical aspects and/or interact with active researchers and research students in the cryptology group, gaining experience of a real research environment.
Reference
Many relevant, mostly quite readable, research papers can be found in the proceedings of the annual Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/ Workshop on Trustworthy Elections.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Colin Boyd
