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Cryptographic Methods for Storing Ballots on a Voting Machine

Authors: J. Bethencourt, D. Boneh, and B. Waters

Abstract:
A direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machine must satisfy several requirements to ensure voter privacy and the integrity of the election. A recent proposal for a vote storage system due to Molnar et al. provides tamper-evidence properties while maintaining voter privacy by storing ballots on a programmable, read-only memory (PROM). We achieve the same properties and protect against additional threats of memory replacement through cryptographic techniques, without the use of special hardware. Our approach is based on a new cryptographic primitive called History-Hiding Append-Only Signatures.

Reference:
In proceedings of the 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Conference (NDSS 2007)

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