First Day

Good I finally got around to it.

This will be the official blog site for my Doctor of Engineering Research on a "Provably Secure Distributed Electronic Voting System" . I reviewed various options for the Title of this work and at the last attempt, I settled for " Open Architectural Framework for Secure Electronic Voting System"

Open in the above ofcourse is as open as gnu license .

The Framework will take advantage of existing open operating system platforms, will rely on several years of Information Technology Security experience , and create a platform on which vendors and system implementors can model a succesfull profile for provably secure distributed elctronic voting infrastructure.

I will consider several domains in the course of this rsearch, including

• 1. Voting System Requirements
• 2. Survey of Open Source Operating Systems
• 3. IP & Security : Version 4 vs Version 6
• 4. Cryptographic Techniques : Secrete Key
• 5. Cryptograpich Techniques : Public Key
• 7. Digital Signatures and Integrity
• 8. Attack Scenario : Trojan Horse
• 9. Attack Scenario : Intrussion
• 10. Attack Scenario: DOS
• 11. Attack Scenario : Viruses & Worms
• 12. Attack Scenario : Unknown Attack Type
• 13. Human Factors: Confidentiality
• 14. Human Factors: Authentication & Audits
• 15. Human Factors: Social Engineering
• 16. Human Factors: Vote Buying & Illegal Vote Tradding
• 17. Regulations: Variable Environments

I expect to refine the list above as time progresses, but this gives me a frame work to get the job done properly and on time.

I belong to several Security and Information Technology organizations and I will continue to use resources from these sources as well as contributing to them as I am able to.

The absolute scope and depth of my work has not been fully determined at this time, but the details will become clearer to me as time progresses and I will be able to take advantage of several opportunities available to me.