Title :
Voting With Unconditional Privacy by Merging PrÊt À Voter and PunchScan
Author :
Van De Graaf, Jeroen
Author_Institution :
Univ. Fed. de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil
Abstract :
We present a detailed comparison of the Pret a Voter (PaV) and PunchScan (PS) protocols for booth voting. We also describe a simpler variation that keeps the ballot layout of PaV-Voter but borrows the cryptography from PS, which is based on any commitment scheme. By using unconditionally hiding commitments we obtain a conceptually very simple voting protocol with unconditional privacy.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; data encapsulation; data privacy; Pret a Voter protocol; PunchScan protocol; booth voting; cryptography; unconditional privacy; unconditionally hiding commitment scheme; Bit commitment; election protocols; unconditional privacy; voting protocols;
Journal_Title :
Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIFS.2009.2034207
