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Subject: NIST HAVA TGDC meeting report
Team, Patrick Gannon and I attended the meeting at NIST yesterday. Patrick is on the formal executive committee and so was able to make comments in support of OASIS EML use at appropriate junctures. TDGC is at some point tasked with evaluting the usefulness of EML. The researchers are aware of the potential for use of EML 4.0 for recording election records. I distributed copies of my slide presentation to members of the TGDC committee and also NIST researchers and this generally appeared to be well received. The NIST researchers presented 3 sets of information - and particularly around the notion of what is VVPAT - that is strongly supportive of the notion of VVPB that I have been envisioning in the trusted process model. Such objective theoretical analysis around the need to provide an anonymous voting process is not binding on anyone - but does add weight to what we are saying. It also helps clarify for those States that have adopted VVPAT - just what that notion is and how it needs to be implemented to ensure voters are not compromised. NIST also presented an excellent paper on threats and risks in voting systems; including analysis of network security. The presentations and Word documents are not online yet. I've added placeholders to them in my slides - and I've asked NIST if they can provide copies directly to me. In either case - as soon as I know more - I will provide those links. In the meantime - I have updated my slides to reinforce the notions of how and why VVPAT = VVPB, the need to do 100% crosscheck instead of a 1% audit (current TGDC thinking!) and other useful supportive content. This appears to be a strong opportunity for NIST and OASIS to work together to develop XML syntax components in support of the HAVA TDGC recommendations and findings. My updated slides are here: http://drrw.net/backup/Trusted-Ballot-Processing-Systems.pdf http://drrw.net/backup/Trusted%20Ballot%20Processing%20Systems.ppt Enjoy, DW
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