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Developing an Analysis of Threats to Voting SystemsOctober 7, 2005   Gaithersburg, MDNIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

 

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Documents listed below were submitted by voting community members.  To submit a threat analysis or other paper, please see this page.  To submit a comment on any of the below analyses, use the associated "Comment" link.  We will include the submitter's name with analyses or comments unless the submitter requests that his or her name not be posted.

Threat Analyses

1.  Chain Voting  - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

2.  Spooled Paper -  John Wack  [Send Comment]

3.  Optical Scan Configuration File - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

4.  Optical Scan Ballot Design - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

5.  Incompetent Pollworkers - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

6.  Security Risks Associated with Pre-election Delivery of Electronic Voting Machines - Barbara Simons  [Send Comment]

7.  Touch Screen Calibration - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

8.  Optical Scan Calibration - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

9.  Touch Screen Window Manager - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

10.   Exploitation of Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations - Stanley A. Klein  [Send Comment]

11.  Smartcard Port Attack - Stanley A. Klein  [Send Comment]

12.  Misprogramming Threat - Jeremy Epstein  [Send Comment]

13.  Wi-Fi Usage in Voting (without inside assistance) - Jeremy Epstein  [Send Comment]

14.  Wi-Fi Usage in Voting (with vendor complicity) - Jeremy Epstein  [Send Comment]

15.  Voter "Assistance" - Douglas W. Jones  [Send Comment]

16.  VVPR Attack with Misprinted VVPAT - David L. Dill  [Send Comment]

17.  Trojan Horse in DRE Application Software - Stephen Green  [Send Comment]

18.  Replaceable Media on Optical Scan - Harri Hurst  [Send Comment]

19.  Trojan Horse In Tally Server - Chris Lowe  [Send Comment]

20.  Attack on Configuration Data - Eric Lazarus/Stephen Green  [Send Comment]

21.  Ballot Marking Device Attack - Eric Lazarus  [Send Comment]

22.  Trojan Horse in DRE - OS - Chris Lowe  [Send Comment]

23.  Paper Trail Boycott - Michael Shamos  [Send Comment]

24.  Paper Trail Manipulation - Michael Shamos  [Send Comment]

25.  Paper Trail Manipulation (2) - Michael Shamos  [Send Comment]

26.  Cellphone Vote-Buying - Michael Shamos  [Send Comment]

27.  Security Vulnerabilities and Problems with VVPT - Ted Selker and Jon Goler  [Send Comment]

28.  Denial of Service (Bottleneck) - Robert Fleischer  [Send Comment]

29.  Precinct Voting Denial of Service - R. Michael Alvarez  [Send Comment]

30.  Potential Threats to Statewide Voter Registration Systems - R. Michael Alvarez  [Send Comment]

31.  Malware Loader - Ron Crane  [Send Comment]

32.  Election Official Training Improvement - Ann Hypes  [Send Comment]

33. Voting System Availability - Wole Akpose [Send Comment]

34. Paper Trail Manipulation III - Ron Crane

 

Other Papers

1.   Florida Statute: Minimum Security Procedures for Voting Systems

2.  Response by the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections

3.   Threats to Voting Systems -  Douglas W. Jones

4.  Voting System Threat Modeling - Stanley A. Klein

5.  Method for Developing Security Procedures in a DRE Environment - Dana DeBeauvoir

6.  Voting Resolution - Brevard Democratic Executive Committee

7.  Strategies for Software Attacks on Voting Machines - John Kelsey

8.  All Threats - David Biddulph 

9.  Software IS a Problem - Bob Fleischer

10.  Comment from the Information Technology Association of America’s Election Technology Council

11.  Paper versus Electronic Records - Michael Shamos

 

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