Speaker

Professor Bryan Ford went from MIT to Yale and is now leading the Decentralized/Distributed Systems Lab (DEDIS) at the EPFL. His interest lies with the securing of private and anonymous communication technologies. This work naturally makes him a very good choice for an introductory presentation on E-Voting at Swiss Cyber Storm. We are not the only ones who realised this, however. So he presented in front of a group of cantons lately. His talk covered the application of blockchain technology on E-Voting and unsolved challenges faced by the two Swiss competitors on their way to build a solution that is certified for use by 100% of the voters and no longer limited to certain groups of voters. Proven anonymity, individual and general verifiability of the system and the establishment of multiple, independent control systems to supervise the various stages of the vote are the key problems. His talk at our conference will prepare the stage for the presentations of the two Swiss competitors.