A Modification of Punchscan: Trust Distribution
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In IAVoSSWorkshop On Trustworthy Elections (WOTE 2006) two papers depicted “Punchscan”, a hybrid paper-electronic voting protocol invented by David Chaum. The scheme is verifiable and effective, but it is managed by a single Election Authority, which must be trusted with voters’ privacy: the Election Authority holds secret information that allows to link a vote from the final bulletin board with ballot’s serial number. In this paper we propose a modification of the scheme in which collusion of different authorities is necessary to make a link between a vote and a ballot.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006