Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1996, Volume 1163/1996, 125-132, DOI: 10.1007/BFb0034841

Some remarks on a receipt-free and universally verifiable Mix-type voting scheme

Markus Michels and Patrick Horster

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Abstract

At Eurocrypt'95 Sako and Kilian presented the first Mix-type voting scheme which is receipt-free and universally verifiable.
In this contribution we analyze this scheme and show that the coercer must not collude with any center. Otherwise its robustness is lost. As a result, the assumed coercer model is clarified. More seriously, it is further pointed out that the privacy of votes can't be guaranteed, if only one Mix-center is honest. Hence, under the commonly used assumption that only one Mix-center must be honest, the voting scheme is insecure unless modified.

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