A Robust and Verifiable Cryptographically Secure Election Scheme

Proceedings of 26th Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science |

Published by IEEE | Organized by IEEE

This paper describes a cryptographic scheme for holding a secure secret ballot election in which all communication is public. Voters cast their votes electronically, suitably encrypted, and a “government” releases a tally and a proof of its correctness which can be verified by all.