A vast number of e-voting schemes including mix-net-based e-voting, homomorphic e-
voting, blind signature-based e-voting, blockchain-based e-voting, post-quantum e-voting …

Much work has been done in recent decades to apply sophisticated cryptographic
techniques to achieve strong end-to-end verifiability in election protocols. The properties of …

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks.
Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total …

We present an overview of the field of anonymous communications, from its establishment in
1981 from David Chaum to today. Key systems are presented categorized according to their …

It had been thought that it is difficult to provide receipt-freeness in mixnet-based electronic
voting schemes. Any kind of user chosen randomness can be used to construct a receipt …

Democracy depends on the proper administration of popular elections. Voters should
receive assurance that their intent was correctly captured and that all eligible votes were …

The technology for verifiable, open-audit elections has advanced substantially since
research on this topic began a quarter century ago. Many of the problems are well …

Even as end-to-end encrypted communication becomes more popular, private messaging
remains a challenging problem due to metadata leakages, such as who is communicating …

Though the multivariable cryptosystems first suggested by Matsumoto and Imai was
defeated by the linearization method of Patarin due to the special properties of the …

Anonymity is a subdiscipline of information hiding, required in a number of applications,
such as in electronic voting. For network communications, anonymity can be provided by a …