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The voter, and only the voter, has access to all three pieces of information.
by dTal 7y ago
The voter, and only the voter, has access to all three pieces of information.
- Nursie 7y agoIf they have access, so does someone trying to coerce them...
- dTal 7y agoNo, they don't. That's the point. The voter can lie about the salt. Only the voter knows they are lying, because they were alone in the polling booth.
- Nursie 7y agoThen how can they be sure their vote was counted correctly?
- dTal 7y agoBy comparing their private knowledge of 1) who they voted for and 2) the salt they were shown in the booth with 3) the public hash of the two. In any case it was only meant as an existence proof, not a practical system. I like aeternus's suggestion much more, since it has the useful property that everyone can see all the votes - just not whose is whose. (Although I'm not sure what function the receipt serves)