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A Secure and Self-tallying E-voting System Based on Blockchain

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Information Security Applications (WISA 2019)

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E-voting has been studied for many years. Recently, researchers find that blockchain can provide an alternative secure platform for e-voting systems, because of its properties of tamper resistance and transparency. However, existing schemes either require centralized authorities to tally ballots or can only handle a limited number of voters. This paper tries to propose a self-tallying e-voting system, i.e., the public can verify the validity of all ballots and tally the ballots. To achieve this goal, technically, we design a new method on blockchain that can generate and distribute random numbers for ballot security and these random numbers will be cancelled out when multiplying all ballots to allow counting the ballots. Secondly, we adopt non-interactive zero knowledge proof to make sure these ballots are valid. Our scheme is proved to be secure.

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This project is partially supported by the RGC CRF funding (CityU, C1008-16G) of the HKSAR Government and by HITSZ, Shenzhen, China while SM Yiu visited HITSZ.

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    Gongxian Zeng, Meiqi He & Siu Ming Yiu

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Zeng, G., He, M., Yiu, S.M. (2020). A Secure and Self-tallying E-voting System Based on Blockchain. In: You, I. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39303-8_6

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