Paper 2024/1040

PeaceFounder: centralised E2E verifiable evoting via pseudonym braiding and history trees

Janis Erdmanis
Abstract

PeaceFounder is a centralised E2E verifiable e-voting system that leverages pseudonym braiding and history trees. The immutability of the bulletin board is maintained replication-free by voter’s client devices with locally stored consistency-proof chains. Meanwhile, pseudonym braiding done via an exponentiation mix before the vote allows anonymisation to be transactional with a single braider at a time. In contrast to existing E2E verifiable e-voting systems, it is much easier to deploy as the system is fully centralised, free from threshold decryption ceremonies, trusted setup phases and bulletin board replication. Furthermore, the body of a vote is signed with a braided pseudonym, enabling unlimited ballot types.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
e-votingE2E-VElGamalZKPexponentiation mixbraidinghistory treeanonymous channel
Contact author(s)
janiserdmanis @ protonmail ch
History
2024-06-28: approved
2024-06-26: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/1040
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/1040,
      author = {Janis Erdmanis},
      title = {{PeaceFounder}: centralised {E2E} verifiable evoting via pseudonym braiding and history trees},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/1040},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1040}
}
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