The Rijnland Internet Election System (RIES) is a system designed for voting in public elections over the internet. A rather cursory scan of the source code to RIES showed a significant lack of security-awareness among the programmers which - among other things - appears to have left RIES vulnerable to near-trivial attacks. If it had not been for independent studies finding problems, RIES would have been used in the 2008 Water Board elections, possibly handling a million votes or more. While RIES was more extensively studied to find cryptographic shortcomings, our work shows that more down-to-earth secure design practices can be at least as important, and the aspects need to be examined much sooner than right before an election. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Gonggrijp, R., Hengeveld, W. J., Hotting, E., Schmidt, S., & Weidemann, F. (2009). RIES - Rijnland internet election system: A cursory study of published source code. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5767 LNCS, pp. 157–171). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04135-8_10
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