Efficient Mixing of Arbitrary Ballots with Everlasting Privacy: How to Verifiably Mix the PPATC Scheme

Kristian Gjøsteen, Thomas Haines, Morten Rotvold Solberg*

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Abstract

The long term privacy of voting systems is of increasing concern as quantum computers come closer to reality. Everlasting privacy schemes offer the best way to manage these risks at present. While homomorphic tallying schemes with everlasting privacy are well developed, most national elections, using electronic voting, use mixnets. Currently the best candidate encryption scheme for making these kinds of elections everlastingly private is PPATC, but it has not been shown to work with any mixnet of comparable efficiency to the current ElGamal mixnets. In this work we give a paper proof, and a machine checked proof, that the variant of Wikström’s mixnet commonly in use is safe for use with the PPATC encryption scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecure IT Systems - 25th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2020, Proceedings
EditorsMikael Asplund, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages92-107
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030708511
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event25th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 23 Nov 202024 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12556 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period23/11/2024/11/20

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