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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Peter Ryan, Thea Peacock
Cryptographic voting schemes strive to provide high assurance of accuracy and secrecy with minimal trust assumptions, in particular, avoiding the need to trust software, hardware, suppliers, officials etc. Ideally we would like to make a voting process as transparent as possible and so base out assurance purely on the vigilance of the electorate at large, via suitable cryptographic algorithms and protocols. However, it is important to recognize that election systems are above all socio-technical systems: they must be usable by the electorate at large. As a result, it may be necessary to trade-off technical perfection against simplicity and usability. We illustrate this tension via design decisions in the Pr\^{e}t \`{a} Voter scheme.
Author(s): Ryan PYA, Peacock T
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2006
Pages: 10
Print publication date: 01/06/2006
Source Publication Date: June 2006
Report Number: 972
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/972.pdf
