Visible to the public BeleniosRF: A Non-interactive Receipt-Free Electronic Voting Scheme

TitleBeleniosRF: A Non-interactive Receipt-Free Electronic Voting Scheme
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsChaidos, Pyrros, Cortier, Veronique, Fuchsbauer, Georg, Galindo, David
Conference NameProceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-4139-4
KeywordsCollaboration, cybersecurity, E-Government, Electronic government, Electronic voting, Foundations, Government, Human Behavior, policy, pubcrawl, randomizable encryption, receipt freeness, Resiliency
Abstract

We propose a new voting scheme, BeleniosRF, that offers both receipt-freeness and end-to-end verifiability. It is receipt-free in a strong sense, meaning that even dishonest voters cannot prove how they voted. We provide a game-based definition of receipt-freeness for voting protocols with non-interactive ballot casting, which we name strong receipt-freeness (sRF). To our knowledge, sRF is the first game-based definition of receipt-freeness in the literature, and it has the merit of being particularly concise and simple. Built upon the Helios protocol, BeleniosRF inherits its simplicity and does not require any anti-coercion strategy from the voters. We implement BeleniosRF and show its feasibility on a number of platforms, including desktop computers and smartphones.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2976749.2978337
DOI10.1145/2976749.2978337
Citation Keychaidos_beleniosrf:_2016