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We present a number of enhancements to the voter verifiable election scheme Pret a Voter scheme [1]. Firstly, we propose a mechanism for the distributed construction by a set of independent clerks of the ballot forms. This construction leads to proto-ballot forms with the candidate list encrypted and ensures that only a collusion of all the clerks could determine the cryptographic seeds or the onion/candidate list association. This eliminates the need to trust a single authority to keep this information secret. Furthermore, it allows the on-demand decryption and printing of the ballot forms, so eliminating chain of custody issues and the chain voting style attacks against encrypted receipt schemes identified in [8]. The ballot forms proposed here use ElGamal randomised encryption so enabling the use of re-encryption mixes for the anonymising tabulation phase in place of the decryption mixes. This has a number of advantages over the RSA, decryption mixes used previously: tolerance against failure of any of the mix tellers, full mixing of terms over the Z_p^* space and enabling the mixes and audits to be fully independently rerun if necessary.
Author(s): Ryan PYA, Schneider SA
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2006
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/04/2006
Source Publication Date: April 2006
Report Number: 956
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/956.pdf
