Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (Z2): 154-164.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.z2.021

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Efficient hybrid-encryption-based optimistic Mix-net protocol

Long-hai LI,Cheng-qiang HUANG,Shang-mei XU,Shao-feng FU   

  1. School of Computer Science and Technology,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
  • Online:2014-11-25 Published:2017-06-19
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China

Abstract:

An efficient hybrid-encryption-based Mix-net is presented that is much faster than all previous Mix-nets with public verifiability when all mix-servers execute the mixing protocol honestly (the usual case).The improvement by taking an “optimistic” and hash-based approach to verify the correctness of mixing is achieved without requiring complex and costly zero-knowledge proofs.Only two element-wise testing processes with low-cost computations of hash functions are involved to make certain messages are not manipulated by a cheating server.An efficient integration of public-key and symmetric-key operations also speeds up the mixing.As a result,the computational task of each mix-server is almost independent of the number of mix-servers except for some negligible tasks.Anyone can verify the correctness of a result rapidly by computing a few exponentiations.The scheme is robust,too.Those characteristics make it very suitable for large scale electronic voting.

Key words: anonymous communication, electronic voting, mix network, hybrid encryption

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