In this talk we will take a look at the Estonian Internet voting, from its initiation to the present state and beyond. We will cover the main stages of its development, discuss motivation behind major protocol updates and some of the societal assumptions that have to be fulfilled in order to consider Internet voting trustworthy. We will also look at the main political and technical challenges, and dicuss the trade-offs one has to take looking for the equilibrium between different conflicting requirements. Many of the trade-offs are not specific to electronic voting, and must be taken for paper voting as well.

Jan Willemson obtained his PhD in computer science at Tartu University, Estonia, in 2002. He has worked on secure digital time-stamping, mobile robotics, multi-party computation and a number e-governance topics, in particular electronic voting. He has authored more than 80 academic papers in international journals and conferences.