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Well, the grandparent's comment isn't asking if your scheme cures cancer and ensures world peace. Instead they're asking if your scheme is at least as secure as
by ReidZB 13y ago
Well, the grandparent's comment isn't asking if your scheme cures cancer and ensures world peace. Instead they're asking if your scheme is at least as secure as other current cryptographic voting protocols out there, the answer to which is "no."
If this problem were so trivial, then I think some of the big names in crypto would not have wasted their time on studying solutions. As it is, though, I don't think there are any convincing arguments for why this problem is "trivial." Instead, there's a laundry list of properties you want a good voting protocol to have, and developing a cryptographically secure protocol that satisfies those properties is highly nontrivial.
- pandaman 13y agoThis scheme is more secure than paper ballots, which are advocated as better than the current cryptographic protocols, whichever they are. Better in a sense that every property of paper ballots can be also applied to the prime multiplication plus it allows verification that you cannot have with the paper ballots. My opponent did not question particular properties of this scheme but instead went on the tangent of properties, which none of voting methods currently has. Hence, she or he could as well request cancer cure.