Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
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- #Election Security
- #Helios Voting System
- #Cryptology
- IACR canceled its annual leadership election due to a lost encryption key.
- Helios, an open-source voting system, was used to ensure verifiable and private voting.
- A trustee lost their private key, making decryption and result verification impossible.
- IACR will now require only two out of three key parts for future elections.
- Moti Yung resigned and was replaced by Michel Abdalla.
- A new election is being held from December 8 to December 20.