HACK SIV — Wed Aug 7th — End Of Day Report

[arianabuilds]

Here's today's update:

1. Another few thousand views on twitter, now past 17k. More email signups for mock elections, and some more Signal group joiners.

• Join the Signal group here if you want
• Sign up for email notifications here

2. Only one issue submission today. Sadly not very high quality though (in our opinion). The report suggested a new vote-buying vector, if we implemented a particular proposed solution (…to another known hypothetical attack, which we find far more interesting). There are a number of problems with the submitted vote-buying issue though. We wrote up a detailed response. You can see the submission & response right after it, both here: Vulnerability of "Recycled Verification # Attack" #115 (comment)

3. Since opening yesterday, we’ve had 3 submissions, 2 from @cjackett & 1 from @phish. Sadly phish’s is outside our eligibility criteria for HACK SIV prizes (see detailed content rules: https://hack.siv.org/rules).

• If you haven't already, check out yesterday's full update - HACK SIV — Tue Aug 6th — Launch Day — End of Day Report #179

• Seems that as of right now, 100% of our 1/2 of the prize allocation is heading to @cjackett.
  But 3.5 days remain! No offense to them, but they could use more competition! Now’s your chance!

4. Tomorrow morning, in-person DEF CON begins. Very excited. Find us at the Voting Village. We’ll also launch a mock election. Suggest questions if you have ideas!

5. Again, even before Live Mock Elections begin, you are invited to:
   a. Search for vulnerabilities in the SIV Protocol, the foundation of the Secure Internet Voting system - https://docs.siv.org/technical-specifications. After all, if the blueprint of the system is not sound, the implementation can’t possibly help.
   b. For a lighter start to the protocol, here’s a simpler illustrated overview: https://siv.org/protocol
   c. And of course, you can run the SIV code on your own machine for local testing: https://github.com/siv-org/siv

So, can you find novel ways to…?

1. Vote multiple times
2. Change someone else's vote, without detection
3. Destroy a vote already confirmed submitted
4. Learn how someone voted, without their help
5. Learn other personal info about voters

Bonus: Convince us of major score updates to docs.siv.org/compare

Happy Hacking! :)

[arianabuilds]

HACK SIV — Day 1 — Launch Day — End of Day Report
#179