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We propose a variant mix-net method, which we call a “marked mix-net”. Marked mix-nets avoid the extra cost associated with verifiability (producing a proof of correct mixing operation), while offering additional assurances about the privacy of the messages, compared to a non-verifiable mix-net.

With a marked mix-net, each mix-server adds an extra secret mark in each ciphertext, and the input ciphertexts are made non-malleable but still re-randomizable (RCCA).

Marked mix-nets appear to be a good fit for the mix-net requirements of voting systems that need a mix-net for anonymity but where correctness is guaranteed through independent mechanisms. Our work investigates applications to STAR-Vote, but other applications could be explored, e.g., in Prêt-à-Voter, Selene or Wombat.

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Acknowledgement

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.

The first author is grateful to the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) for its financial support provided through the the SeVoTe project. The second author gratefully acknowledges support for his work on this project received from the Center for Science of Information (CSoI), an NSF Science and Technology Center, under grant agreement CCF-0939370, and from the Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, which hosted his sabbatical visit during this work.

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    Olivier Pereira

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    Ronald L. Rivest

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Pereira, O., Rivest, R.L. (2017). Marked Mix-Nets. In: Brenner, M., et al. Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70278-0_22

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