Certified online voting software
Certificate for online elections
- Get informed about the first certification awarded for online voting
- Learn which security requirements are set for online elections
- View the results of POLYAS CORE 2.5.4 certification
In 2016 certification for online elections was first awarded in Germany through the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). POLYAS CORE 2.5.4. was thus the very first voting software that met the requirements of the protection profile under international Common Criteria.
Underpinning certification is the protection profile BSI-CC-PP-0037-2008 which outlines the system requirements that need to be met by online election systems. The functionality and trustworthiness of POLYAS online voting software has also been evaluated by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
The basic security requirements for online voting products are guided by general democratic principles (free, equal, secret, general and direct). Accordingly, online elections carried out with POLYAS CORE 2.5.4 are secure under BSI requirements and meet the high security standards demanded by democratic elections.
POLYAS CORE 2.5.4 also satisfies the following requirements:
On 15 March 2016 POLYAS CORE software received the security certificate BSI-DSZ-CC-0862-2016. That means: by complying with all procedures, certified online elections are now possible though POLYAS CORE 2.5.4.
The evaluation is documented in the certification report and includes all component system functions as well as the system architecture in its entirety.
The following statements about the POLYAS CORE 2.5.4 voting system were made in the certification report: