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Miguel Romão
UA
The ambition of any e-voting system is to reproduce, in an electronic environment, the characteristics of physical voting systems, such as accuracy, democracy, privacy and verifiability. REVS is an Internet e-voting system based on blind signatures and designed to be robust in distributed and faulty environments. However, the execution of REVS client system, used by voters, can be tampered by intruders willing to compromise the accuracy of submitted votes or the privacy of voters. In this document we present a new, intrusion tolerant e-voting client architecture for REVS. This architecture is based on public key cryptography, smart cards and FINREAD terminal readers.