Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes

McCarthy, Adam; Smyth, Ben; Quaglia, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_4

This paper demonstrates a relation between e-auction and e-voting by presenting two e-auction schemes derived from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes.

Adam McCarthy, Ben Smyth & Elizabeth A. Quaglia (2014) Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes. In FC'14: 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (LNCS), 51–63, Springer.

Abstract

The cryptographic foundations of e-auction and e-voting schemes are similar, for instance, seminal works in both domains have applied mixnets, homomorphic encryption, and trapdoor bit-commitments. However, these developments have appeared independently and the two communities are disjoint. In this paper, we demonstrate a relation between e-auction and e-voting: we present Hawk and Aucitas, two e-auction schemes derived from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes. Our results make progress towards the unification of the e-auction and e-voting domains.

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