Paper Info
Title
Software-Based Receipt-Freeness in On-Line Elections
Abstract
Electronic elections could be a viable alternative for real-life elections in a democratic society. In traditional elections, a voting booth does more than allow voters to keep their vote secret. The voting booth actually requires that voters vote secretly. If the privacy of the vote was allowed but not required, then a voter could easily sell his vote to a vote-buyer, or be coerced by a coercer. We present a receipt-free election scheme without making any hardware or physical assumptions about the communication channel between the voter and the voting authorities. Our solution is software-based i.e. voters are able to exercise their electoral rights from their home by using a personal computer with Internet access. The only physical assumption we make use of is an untappable channel between the two voting authorities that are employed in our scheme. This scheme satisfies most requirements of a secure electronic election. We make use of well-known cryptographic techniques such as time-lock puzzles and blind signatures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/0-306-46958-8_3
Network Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
software-based receipt-freeness,electronic voting,on-line elections,privacy.,receipt-freeness,satisfiability,internet access,communication channels,blind signature
Electronic voting,Internet privacy,Voting,Computer science,Cryptography,Computer security,Receipt,Personal computer,Software,Democracy,Internet access
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7923-7558-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikos Alexandris132.05
Emmanouil Magkos221724.01
vassilios chrissikopoulos316016.11