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Base System Security (BSS)
Is this really the election server?
Was the software configuration altered during the election?
Valid questions that may be asked in an election and that have to be answered satisfactorily. Servers are unobservable per se and it is a prime concern in electronic voting to strengthen the trust in electronic voting. BSS enables to monitor the election server’s software configuration from a secure server that is not managed by the election server administration.
The integrity of the software configuration is continuously ascertained, manipulations in the software used are detected and signalled, whereupon an independent monitoring authority may initiate the appropriate actions.
BSS may also monitor a SKM/VFY installation or, in fact, an arbitrary software installation.