Paper 2015/503

The Norwegian Internet Voting Protocol: A new Instantiation

Kristian Gjøsteen and Anders Smedstuen Lund

Abstract

The Norwegian government ran trials of internet remote voting during the 2011 municipal elections and the 2013 parliamentary elections. From a simplified version of the voting protocol used there, the essential cryptographic operations of the voting protocol has been put together into a cryptosystem in which one can build the voting protocol on top of. This paper proposes a new instantiation of the underlying cryp- tosystem, improving our confidence in the security of the cryptosys- tem. The new instantiation is mostly similar to a previously defined instantiation, but allows parts of the security proof to be significantly improved.

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Minor revision. Will be a part of the PhD-thesis of Anders Smedstuen Lund
Keywords
electronic voting protocolsDecision Diffie-Hellmanzero-knowledge
Contact author(s)
andelund @ math ntnu no
History
2015-05-27: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/503
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/503,
      author = {Kristian Gjøsteen and Anders Smedstuen Lund},
      title = {The Norwegian Internet Voting Protocol: A new Instantiation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/503},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/503}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/503}
}
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