Paper 2025/929
The DROP Protocol: Dispute Resolution via Observation in Public for Verifiable, In-Person Voting
, Microsoft Research, Microsoft ResearchAbstract
Dispute resolution has been a significant challenge in verifiable election protocols since such protocols were first proposed more than forty years ago. This work explores the problem from a new perspective and offers strong dispute resolution for in-person voting by depending on observers. It proposes a simple definition of dispute resolution as a property of a voting protocol---a definition that is independent of any other security goal. It also presents the DROP protocol, a verifiable, in-person voting protocol that runs in the presence of observers who will always reach a correct conclusion in the case of a dispute without ever being able to compromise privacy or facilitate coercion.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- VotingDispute resolutionVerifiable elections
- Contact author(s)
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benaloh @ microsoft com
mnaehrig @ microsoft com
olivier pereira @ uclouvain be - History
- 2025-05-23: approved
- 2025-05-22: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2025/929
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/929,
author = {Josh Benaloh and Michael Naehrig and Olivier Pereira},
title = {The {DROP} Protocol: Dispute Resolution via Observation in Public for Verifiable, In-Person Voting},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/929},
year = {2025},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/929}
}
