Hierarchical Distributed Election Protocols

Steve Chien - Chung-chieh Shan

Abstract:

In this paper, we survey and contribute to the field of secure distributed voting protocols. We begin by examining a series of increasingly sophisticated existing voting protocols, and demonstrate how they move from basic verifiability to add privacy and uncoercibility. We then propose a new protocol which allows a hierarchical voting scheme, which should be more scalable than existing protocols without practically sacrificing any of the other criteria.