Technical
Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Agenda
Attendees: Alexia Scott-Morrison, Alicia Clay, Allan Eustis, Andrew Regenscheid, Barbara Guttman, Bill Burr, David Wagner, Elle Colver (EAC), Helen Purcell, John Wack, Mat Masterson (EAC), Nelson Hastings, Quynh Dang, Sharon Laskowski Administrative Updates:
Open Ended Vulnerability Testing (OEVT) (Alicia Clay): Alicia went over requirements 1.1.2.F and 1.1.2.G regarding failure criteria, and noted that Santosh Chokani had comments that still needed to be taken into consideration. It was clarified and verified that the OEVT team does not have to exploit a threat; they just need to analyze and prove the vulnerability to fail the system. Two ways to fail a system were discussed. A system would fail if it does not meet all the requirements laid out in the VVSG. A system is also fail-able if there are vulnerabilities discovered (even if not covered directly in the standard) that could be exploited to change the outcome of an election. Requirements 1.1.2.F and 1.1.2.G will be reworded to clarify specifics. It was also decided to change the current draft requirements so that the OEVT team did not "define failure criteria" to "use failure criteria". There will be informative discussion text added to clarify what is meant by serious vulnerabilities. It was noted that the testing labs are the ones that make the final call on pass/fail of a system based on the OEVT team's report. Alicia discussed questions and feedback received on the OEVT requirements:
The question
arose as to how the OEVT requirements would be presented and the group
was informed that all requirements were presented to the EAC as draft
recommendations. There
was discussion regarding whether a system failed if during the testing
process the OEVT team was able to break into the system but evidence
was left that this had occurred. It was discussed that there is no uniform
rule about evidence tracking on the system and that each requirement
being tested must be looked at individually. It was decided that based
on conversation there would not be a change to the requirements but
that a "Rules of Engagement" paper should be written. Other:
[* Pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the TGDC is charged with directing NIST in performing voting systems research so that the TGDC can fulfill its role of recommending technical standards for voting equipment to the EAC. This teleconference served the purposes of the STS subcommittee of the TGDC to direct NIST staff and coordinate voting-related research relevant to the VVSG 2007. Discussions on this telecon are preliminary and do not necessarily reflect the views of NIST or the TGDC.]
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