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Title:
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REVS A ROBUST ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM |
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Author(s):
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Rui Joaquim , André Zúquete , Paulo Ferreira |
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ISBN:
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ISSN: 1645-7641 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2003 |
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Edition:
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V I, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Electronic voting, Fault-Tolerance, Robustness, Blind signatures. |
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Type:
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Journal Paper |
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First Page:
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47 |
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Last Page:
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63 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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There are many protocols proposed for electronic voting, but only a few of them have prototypes
implemented. Usually the prototypes are focused in the characteristics of the protocol and do not handle
properly some real world issues, such as fault tolerance. This paper presents REVS, a robust electronic
voting system designed for distributed and faulty environments, namely the Internet. The goal of REVS
is to be an electronic voting system that accomplishes the desired characteristics of traditional voting
systems, such as accuracy, democracy, privacy and verifiability. In addition, REVS deals with failures in
real world scenarios, such as machine or communication failures, which can lead to protocol
interruptions. REVS robustness has consequences at three levels: (i) the voting process can be
interrupted and recovered without weakening the voting protocol; (ii) it allows a certain degree of
failures, with server replication; and (iii) none of the servers conducting the election, by its own or to a
certain level of collusion, can corrupt the election outcome. |
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