Peer-reviewed research papers

Risk-limiting Audits: A Practical Systematization of Knowledge
Matthew Bernhard
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
(E-Vote-ID'21), October 2021.

Tales from the Trenches: Case Studies in Election Cybersecurity Preparedness in Texas
Elizabeth Kasongo, Matthew Bernhard, and Chris Bronk
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
(E-Vote-ID'21), October 2021.

Can Voters Detect Malicious Manipulation of Ballot Marking Devices?
Matthew Bernhard, Allison McDonald, Henry Meng, Jensen Hwa, Nakul Bajaj, Kevin Chang, and J. Alex Halderman
In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(Oakland'20), May 2020.  — Best Student Paper Award

Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia
Reethika Ramesh, Ram Sundara Raman, Matthew Bernhard, Victor Ongkowijaya, Leonid Evdokimov, Anne Edmundson, Steven Sprecher, Muhammad Ikram, and Roya Ensafi
In Proceedings of the 27th Network and Distributed Systems Symposium
(NDSS'20), February 2020.

UnclearBallot: Automated Ballot Image Manipulation
Matthew Bernhard, Kartikeya Kandula, Jeremy Wink, and J. Alex Halderman
In Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
(E-Vote-ID'19), October 2019.

On the Usability of HTTPS Deployment
Matthew Bernhard, Jonathan Sharman, Claudia Ziegler Acemyan, Philip Kortum, Dan S. Wallach, and J. Alex Halderman
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors on Computing Systems
(CHI'19), May 2019.

Bernoulli Ballot-Polling: A Manifest Improvement for Risk-Limiting Audits
Kellie Ottoboni, Matthew Bernhard, J. Alex Halderman, Ronald L. Rivest, and Philip B. Stark
In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
(Voting'19), February 2019.

403 Forbidden: A Global View of CDN Geoblocking
Allison McDonald, Matthew Bernhard, Luke Valenta, Benjamin VanderSloot, Will Scott, Nick Sullivan, J. Alex Halderman, Roya Ensafi
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference
(IMC'18), November 2018.

Voting Technologies, Recount Methods and Votes in Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016
Walter R. Mebane, Jr. and Matthew Bernhard
In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
(Voting'18), February 2019.

Public Evidence from Secret Ballots
Matthew Bernhard, Josh Benaloh, J. Alex Halderman, Ronald L. Rivest, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Philip B. Stark, Vanessa Teague, Poorvi L. Vora, and Dan S. Wallach
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
(E-Vote-ID'17), October 2017.

Understanding the Mirai Botnet
Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matthew Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, and Yi Zhou
In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium
(USENIX'17), August 2017.

Implementing Attestable Kiosks
Matthew Bernhard, J. Alex Halderman, and Gabe Stocco
In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust
(PST'16), December 2016.

Towards a Complete View of the Certificate Ecosystem
Benjamin VanderSloot, Johanna Amann, Matthew Bernhard, Zakir Durumeric, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference
(IMC'16), November 2016.

Selected other publications

The Security Challenges of Online Voting Have Not Gone Away
Robert Cunningham, Matthew Bernhard, and J. Alex Halderman
In IEEE Spectrum, November 2016.

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