Distributing the Power of a Government to Enhance the Privacy of Voters
- Josh Benaloh ,
- Moti Yung
Principles of Distributed Computing |
Published by Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. | Organized by Association for Computing Machinery
In this paper, we distribute the functions of the government in the cryptographic election scheme of [CoFi85]. In so doing, we are able to achieve privacy of individual votes in a much stronger sense without giving up any of the previously attained properties of robustness or veriability. This gives an electronic mechanism for holding a large-scale election amongst untrusted parties which is far more useful in “realworld” applications than the previous scheme.
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