March 9: NIST reports on VVPATs, voting security, etc for EAC/TGDC

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) of the Election
Assistance Commission is meeting this Wednesday.  Their materials are
online, and you can see the agenda and listen in by webcast via this
site:

  http://www.eastbaymedia.com/tgdc-march/

Some of the more interesting presentations from NIST experts are
these:

 Preliminary Report: NIST Approach to VVPAT Requirements for the VSS
 2002 Addendum (John Wack)

 Preliminary Report: NIST Approach to Usability and Accessibility
 Requirements for the VSS 2002 Addendum (Sharon Laskowski)

 Preliminary Report: NIST Approach to Software Distribution and Setup
 Validation for the VSS 2002 Addendum (Nelson Hastings)

 Preliminary Report: NIST Approach to Direct and Indirect Verification
 for the Next Version of the VSS (John Kelsey)

 Preliminary Report: NIST Approach to Security Testing for the Next
 Version of the VSS (John Kelsey)

The memos supporting those presentations are available thru:

 http://vote.nist.gov/TGDC/MeetingMaterials.html

I only see them linked to from this pdf(!) file:
  http://vote.nist.gov/TGDC/WorkProductWeb%20Page.pdf

though a good-old html file would seem much better.

Also, according to  http://vote.nist.gov/TGDCsubworksched.htm

  The meetings will be recorded and an audio .mpeg file will be
  available at the conclusion of each meeting at
  http://vote.nist.gov/Hearingsand Transcript.htm [?]. We encourage public
  comment/input on the meetings. Input can be mailed directly to:
  voting@xxxxxxxxx

Good material to get some traction on!  Share your insights on our
email lists.  Send in your comments!

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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