key: 2014-Hawk-and-Aucitas-auction-schemes
type: inproceedings
title: "Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes"
authors:
  - Adam McCarthy
  - Ben Smyth
  - Elizabeth A. Quaglia
year: 2014
month: 1
booktitle: "FC'14: 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security"
series: LNCS
volume: "8437"
pages: 51--63
publisher: Springer
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_4
description: >-
  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.
keywords: >-
  auction, voting, Helios, Civitas, privacy, bid secrecy, collusion resistance, verifiability, price
  flexibility, sealed-bid, Aucitas, Hawk, electronic auction, electronic voting, e-voting, e-auction
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.
supersededby:
  - key: 2015-election-to-auction-transform
    text: journal article
links:
  - file: Smyth14-Hawk-and-Aucitas-auction-schemes.pdf
    text: Conference paper
  - file: Smyth14-Hawk-and-Aucitas-auction-schemes.long.pdf
    text: Extended version
  - file: Smyth14-Hawk-and-Aucitas-auction-schemes.code.tar.gz
    text: Hawk source
  - url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_4
    text: Official version