Cryptographically verifiable anonymous voting using pan-european e-IDs
This addresses the need for secure and anonymous voting in Europe, but it is incremental as it builds on existing frameworks like STORK and TOR.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling anonymous yet verifiable electronic voting using European e-IDs, achieving this through a protocol based on blind signatures and onion routing, with analysis of a reference implementation and proposed improvements.
In this paper we explore a method to create anonymous services on top of the STORK framework, to be used for electronic surveys or elections. The STORK project aims to realize a single electronic identification and authentication area across Europe. For verifiable and anonymous voting, users should be authenticated with their e-id (to prevent repeated voting) but the votes should also be anonymous. This is achieved using blind signatures and an onion routing system similar to the one used in TOR. In the paper we describe the anonymous voting protocol in detail, we analyze a reference implementation and, finally, we highlight potential weaknesses and propose some improvements.