Voting with Unconditional Privacy by Merging Prêt-à-Voter and PunchScan

Jeroen van de Graaf

Paper 2007/269 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2007/269 ↗

Voting with Unconditional Privacy by Merging Prêt-à-Voter and PunchScan

Jeroen van de Graaf

Abstract

We present a detailed comparison of the Prêt-à-Voter and Punchscan protocols for booth voting. We also describe a simpler variation that keeps the ballot layout of Prêt-à-Voter but borrows the cryptography from Punchscan, which is based on any commitment scheme. By using unconditionally hiding commitments we obtain a conceptually very simple voting protocol with unconditional privacy.

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Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2009-08-20: last updated; 2007-07-16: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2007/269
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/269,
      author = {Jeroen van de Graaf},
      title = {Voting with Unconditional Privacy by Merging Prêt-à-Voter and PunchScan},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/269},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/269}
}