Paper 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.
Note: This paper is the result of a long-overdue task I had set myself: going to the cryptographic core of both Pret-a-Voter and PunchScan. The first, four-page version was presented as a short paper to the Simposio Brasileiro de Seguranca.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Revised version, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Special Issue on Electronic Voting.
- Keywords
- votingelections
- Contact author(s)
- jvdg ufop @ gmail com
- History
- 2009-08-20: last of 6 revisions
- 2007-07-16: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2007/269
- License
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CC BY
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} }