The collection of digital information by governments, corporations, and individuals has
created tremendous opportunities for knowledge-and information-based decision making …

E-voting technology has been developed for more than 30 years. However it is still distance
away from serious application. The major challenges are to provide a secure solution and to …

Privacy and data protection constitute core values of individuals and of democratic societies.
There have been decades of debate on how those values-and legal obligations-can be …

VI Preface methods from information theory. Unconditionally secure schemes are now
addressed in an extra chapter, Chapter 10.• Unconditional security is not achievable without …

We introduce a model for electronic election schemes that involves a more powerful
adversary than previous work. In particular, we allow the adversary to demand of coerced …

Civitas is the first electronic voting system that is coercion-resistant, universally and voter
verifiable, and suitable for remote voting. This paper describes the design and …

A new kind of receipt sets a far higher standard of security by letting voters verify the election
outcome-even if all election computers and records were compromised. The system …

Mix-nets are used in e-voting schemes and other applications that require anonymity.
Shuffles of homomorphic encryptions are often used in the construction of mix-nets. A shuffle …

Communication messages in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) can be used to locate and
track vehicles. While tracking can be beneficial for vehicle navigation, it can also lead to …

We introduce a new cryptographic technique that we call universal re-encryption. A
conventional cryptosystem that permits re-encryption, such as ElGamal, does so only for a …