A Smart Contract for Boardroom Voting with Maximum Voter Privacy

By Patrick McCorry, Siamak Fayyaz Shahandashti, Feng Hao. 2017

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems

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Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More (2018, background): “On the other hand, for small applications like boardroom voting, one can use classical sigma protocols [26], but the proof-sizes and expensive verification costs are prohibitive for more complicated applications.”
Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts (2018, background): “8 Ethereum’s global gas limit is a significant limitation that makes many computations – that would take just seconds to execute on a modern CPU – unachievable [8, 24].”
Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts: Architecture, Applications, and Future Trends (2019, background): “P. McCorry et al. present a smart contract implementation for the Open Vote Network (a self-tallying voting protocol) that runs on Ethereum network [22].”
An Overview on Smart Contracts: Challenges, Advances and Platforms (2019, unknown): “Smart contracts are boosting a broad spectrum of applications ranging from industrial Internet of Things to ﬁnancial services [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].”
Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability (2018, background): “, card games like poker—without the need of a trusted third party [15, 29]; or how to use blockchains as bulletin boards in electronic voting [30].”
Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019, methodology): “A more comprehensive approach is proposed by [195] that implements a system on Ethereum in which each voter is in control of the privacy of their own vote, so that it can be only breached by a full collusion involving all other voters.”
Zether: Towards Privacy in a Smart Contract World (2020, background): “[54] proposed a decentralized mechanism for boardroom voting, called the Open Vote Network (OVN), which provides voter privacy.”
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning in Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value, and Consensus Instability (2020, background): “Ethereum smart contracts have been used or proposed for a range of complex transaction types, including shareholder voting [27], stakeholder-owned investment funds and vehicles [9, 13], fair exchange protocols for goods [39], complex key management solutions [38], video games [21], virtual casinos…”
Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks (2018, background): “Some examples of such services include land record management [3], domain name registration [51], and voting [55].”
Blockchain-Based E-Voting System (2018, methodology): “A Smart Contract For Boardroom Voting with Maximum Voter Privacy[11], proposed the first implementation of a decentralized and self-tallying internet voting protocol with maximum voter privacy using the Blockchain, called The Open Vote Network (OVN).”
Blockchain 3.0 applications survey (2020, methodology): “Because the cost of the transactions presented in [28] is linear in the number of voters this would mean that only elections of at most about 100 voters are in practice currently supported.”
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges (2019, background): “Ethereum smart contracts have been used or proposed for a range of complex transaction types, including shareholder voting [36], stakeholder-owned investment funds and vehicles [11, 16], fair exchange protocols for goods [51], complex key management solutions [50], video games [26], virtual casinos ”
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges (2021, methodology): “[141] proposed Open Vote Network which ensures voter privacy using Ethereum for board room voting.”
A Semantic Framework for the Security Analysis of Ethereum smart contracts (2018, background): “Ethereum programs, called smart contracts, have thus found a variety of appealing use cases, such as financial contracts [2], auctions [3], elections [4], data management systems [5], trading platforms [6,7], permission management [8] and verifiable cloud computing [9], just to mention a few.”