Votação Anônima Segura Utilizando Lista de Discussão

• Júlio S. Dias UDESC
• Fabiano C. Pereira UFSC
• Ricardo F. Custódio UFSC
• Carlos R. De Rolt UDESC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbseg.2004.21231

Abstract

Democracy is an important subject, and its importance is concentrated in the possibility of discussing about a specific subject, going beyond the simple choice among the available options. This article proposes a way of conducting discussions and also polling among the members of a mailing list, which is available through the use of electronic mail, a known and quite used infra-structure. We propose to use mix-networks and secret sharing technics in order to achieve the required security requirements to the polling system using a mailing list.

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