Achieving Learning Objectives through E-Voting Case Studies

  • Authors:
  • Matt Bishop;Deborah A. Frincke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Davis;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The use of electronic voting machines includes a wide range of security considerations that educators can use to highlight threatmodels, requirements, and trade-offs involving e-voting in the context of ongoing international discussions and current events. Thisarticle presents an informal case study to achieve five learning outcomes for students in a typical college (or even high school)classroom: understanding how to write a security specification; learning about different forms of security policies; understandingconfidentiality, privacy, and information flow; recognizing the importance of considering usability from a security perspective; andidentifying assurance's role in establishing confidence in results.