Multi-authority secret-ballot elections with linear work

R. Cramer, M.K. Franklin, B. Schoenmakers, M. Yung

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    Abstract

    We present new cryptographic protocols for multi-authority secret ballot elections that guarantee privacy, robustness, and univer- sal verifiability. Application of some novel techniques, in particular the construction of witness hiding/indistinguishable protocols from Cramer, Damgård and Schoenmakers, and the verifiable secret sharing scheme of Pedersen, reduce the work required by the voter or an authority to a linear number of cryptographic operations in the population size (com- pared to quadratic in previous schemes). Thus we get significantly closer to a practical election scheme.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT'96 (Proceedings International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques, Saragossa, Spain, May 12-16, 1996)
    EditorsU.M. Maurer
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages72-83
    ISBN (Print)3-540-61186-X
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1996

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume1070
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

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