Improvements in everlasting privacy: Efficient and secure zero knowledge proofs

Thomas Haines*, Clementine Gritti

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Abstract

Verifiable electronic voting promises to ensure the correctness of elections even in the presence of a corrupt authority, while providing strong privacy guarantees. However, few practical systems with end-to-end verifiability are expected to offer long term privacy, let alone guarantee it. Since good guarantees of privacy are essential to the democratic process, good guarantees of everlasting privacy must be a major goal of secure online voting systems. Various currently proposed solutions rely on unusual constructions whose security has not been established. Further, the cost of verifying the zero knowledge proofs of other solutions has only been partially analysed. Our work builds upon Moran and Naor’s solution—and its extensions, applications and generalisations—to present a scheme which is additively homomorphic, efficient to verify, and rests upon well studied assumptions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElectronic Voting - 4th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2019, Proceedings
EditorsRobert Krimmer, Melanie Volkamer, Bernhard Beckert, Veronique Cortier, Ralf Küsters, Uwe Serdült, David Duenas-Cid
PublisherSpringer
Pages116-133
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783030306243
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2019 - Bregenz, Austria
Duration: 1 Oct 20194 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11759 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2019
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityBregenz
Period1/10/194/10/19

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