Enhanced Anonymous Credentials for E-Voting Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10265v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:42:21 GMT
• Title: Enhanced Anonymous Credentials for E-Voting Systems
• Authors: Tomasz Truderung,
• Abstract summary: A simple and practical method for achieving everlasting privacy in e-voting systems is to use anonymous voter credentials.<n>This paper considers a simple augmentation to the anonymous credential mechanism, using perfectly hiding commitments to link such credentials to the voter identities.<n>It ensures that published ballots remain unlinkable to voter identities, yet enables necessary consistency checks during ballot casting and ballot auditing.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A simple and practical method for achieving everlasting privacy in e-voting systems, without relying on advanced cryptographic techniques, is to use anonymous voter credentials. The simplicity of this approach may, however, create some challenges, when combined with other security features, such as cast-as-intended verifiability with second device and second-factor authentication. This paper considers a simple augmentation to the anonymous credential mechanism, using perfectly hiding commitments to link such credentials to the voter identities. This solution strengthens the binding between voters and their credentials while preserving everlasting privacy. It ensures that published ballots remain unlinkable to voter identities, yet enables necessary consistency checks during ballot casting and ballot auditing

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