full-disclosure - Electronic Voting Machines - WinVote by Advanced Voting Solutions

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Message-ID: <200408182140.i7ILeuSr023105@vtrand.cc.vt.edu>
From: marchany at vt.edu (marchany@...edu)
Subject: Electronic Voting Machines - WinVote by Advanced Voting Solutions

Our county has approved the purchase of these machines for the upcoming 
election. I looked them up on the www and found that the Windows-based voting 
machines use WEP to ensure the security of the wireless transmissions of the 
machines to a central site.

Without even commenting on the "security" of WEP, it seems to me that a 
massive DDOS attack against the voting machines could prevent vote tallies 
from being counted in a timely manner.

Has there been any discussion of the security of this type of voting machine 
architecture?

The machine is particular is WinVote by Advanced Voting Solutions 
(http://clients.enfocom.com/avs/home.html`).

	-Randy Marchany