SKM and VFY

SKM Benefits
SKM Technical Description
SKM Application Scenarios
The Verifier (VFY)
Base System Security (BSS)
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The Verifier (VFY):

An essential issue in e-voting is the lack of server observability by independent authorities. EVOTE supports independent election monitoring by a range of means – one of them authenticating the voter’s election token that is used to cast a vote with a second digital signature. This is done by the Verifier.

This enables an independent watchdog authority to check the work of the election server itself because after vote casting finished all votes submitted must be associated with a token bearing this second signature. Also, the list of voters for whom such a second signature was issued must be identical to the list of active voters in the voter roll. The Verifier functionality was included in the SKM, however, due to the modular, Web-based concept of Hierodiction systems SKM and Verifier may also be run separately.

Independent election monitoring creates trust and auditability; it increases the accountability and transparency of the election system with respect to the authorities that are politically and legally responsible for conducting the elections.