Boardroom voting scheme with unconditionally secret ballots based on DC-Net

  • Authors:
  • Long-Hai Li;Cheng-Qiang Huang;Shao-Feng Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

  • Venue:
  • NSS'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Network and System Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A novel electronic voting scheme is proposed which is quite suitable for small scale election settings. An outstanding characteristic of the design is its guarantee of unconditionally perfect ballot secrecy. It satisfies self-tallying, fairness and verifiability. Disruption of the result of an election equals to breaking the Discrete Logarithm Problem. Our scheme is built on top of the DC-net(dining cryptographers network) anonymous broadcast protocol. It needs no trusted authority to guarantee its security, but assumes a complete network of secure private channels between voters.