Name: Melanie

Family Name: Volkamer

Affiliation: CASED TU Darmstadt

Personal web-site: www.cased.de

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Melanie Volkamer studied Computer Science at the Saarland University (Germany). She started her PhD in 2004 at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; the defense will be in October. The topic of her thesis is “requirements and evaluation methods for electronic voting systems”. Here she improves existing requirement documents by the application of the Common Criteria in order to be flexible with respect to underlying trust models and evaluations depths. Melanie Volkamer gave presentations on arbitrary eVoting events and conferences and was/is a member of different advisory boards in eVoting initiatives and projects – in particular she joint the OSCE mission to Estonia in 2007. She co-authors Protection Profile (PP) for the Digital Election Pen and the PP for Online-Voting.

Title of the presentation

Meaningful evaluations of electronic voting systems

Abstract

In my speech I will highlight the vulnerabilities of existing requirement document and corresponding evaluation techniques (in particular the German case). Moreover, I will shortly introduce our approach based on the Common Criteria Evaluation Method (CC) to evaluate the voting software and how this approach can be integrated in additional meaningful evaluations.

On-line publications

http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte/pp0037b_engl.pdf

http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte/PP0031b.pdf (only in German - sorry)

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