Open AccessTowards Trustworthiness without Trusted Authorities
Author(s) -
Thomas Haines
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
queensland university of technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Dissertations/theses
DOI - 10.5204/thesis.eprints.112814
Subject(s) - electronic voting , polling , voting , trustworthiness , computer security , computer science , scheme (mathematics) , internet privacy , cryptography , ring signature , public key cryptography , encryption , computer network , political science , mathematics , law , politics , mathematical analysis
This project focuses on improving public consensus systems by reducing reliance on the powerful authorities which are prevalent in modern electronic voting schemes. We investigate how new cryptographic protocols with human involvement can remove or reduce reliance on trusted authorities. We improve the in-polling-booth electronic voting scheme "Prêt à Voter" to allow higher privacy. We propose an online voting scheme called "VOTOR" that prevents the authorities from learning or casting votes, along with other desirable properties. Finally, we design a forward-secure and unconditionally anonymous linkable ring signature, with applications to onlinevoting
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