An Open Framework for Remote Electronic Elections

  • Authors:
  • Yu Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China, Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • CANS '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a framework for remote electronic elections with an independent, trustworthy authorization proxy. Unlike existing voting systems, voter authorization is separated from particular elections in our scheme, and is done through reusable credentials granted by the proxy. Moreover, different types of elections can fit in the framework, with different sets of legitimate voters and even different designs of voting and tabulation. We also define a cryptographic protocol for the credential generation and the election registration.