[Full-Disclosure] Electronic Voting Machines - WinVote by Adv anced Voting Solutions

[Fetch, Brandon]

Next question - is the traffic encrypted between the counting station and
the booth itself?  If it's not, I'm filing a paper vote in my community from
now on.

(Grand Prairie, TX BTW)

Brandon Fetch
817-871-4036
-- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape"

-----Original Message-----
From: marchany at vt.edu [mailto:marchany at vt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:41 PM
To: full-disclosure at lists.netsys.com
Cc: marchany at vtrand.cc.vt.edu
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Electronic Voting Machines - WinVote by Advanced
Voting Solutions

Our county has approved the purchase of these machines for the upcoming
election. I looked them up on the www and found that the Windows-based
voting
machines use WEP to ensure the security of the wireless transmissions of the
machines to a central site.

Without even commenting on the "security" of WEP, it seems to me that a
massive DDOS attack against the voting machines could prevent vote tallies
from being counted in a timely manner.

Has there been any discussion of the security of this type of voting machine
architecture?

The machine is particular is WinVote by Advanced Voting Solutions
(http://clients.enfocom.com/avs/home.html`).

        -Randy Marchany

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