key: 2019-Athena-voting-system
type: techreport
title: "Athena: A verifiable, coercion-resistant voting system with linear complexity"
authors:
  - Ben Smyth
year: 2019
month: 7
number: 2019/761
institution: Cryptology ePrint Archive
description: This manuscript delivers Athena, a coercion-resistant voting system with linear complexity
keywords: >-
  Civitas, Cobra, coercion resistance, complexity, elections, election scheme, electronic voting,
  e-voting, Juels Catalao Jakobsson, linear, linear complexity, privacy, provable security, secrecy,
  Selections, voting
abstract: >-
  Seminal work by Juels, Catalano & Jakobsson delivered a verifiable, coercion-resistant voting
  system with quadratic complexity. This manuscript attempts to advance the state-of-the-art by
  delivering a voting system with equivalent security and linear complexity.
links:
  - file: Smyth19-Athena-voting-system.pdf
    text: Draft
    alt:
      url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/761/
      text: Cryptology ePrint Archive version