Publication result detail

BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting

HOMOLIAK, I.; LI, Z.; SZALACHOWSKI, P.

Original Title

BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting

English Title

BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Voting is a means to agree on a collective decision based on choices available (e.g., candidates) where participants (voters) agree to abide by their outcome. To improve trust in voting, decentralized solutions based on a blockchain can be employed. A blockchain ensures that all entities in the voting system have the same view of the actions made by others due to the immutable log. Existing blockchain-based boardroom voting implementation called Open Voting Network (OVN) supports only two candidates. We present a blockchain-based approach for decentralized 1-out-of-k voting and provide a cost-optimized implementation using Ethereum. We resolve the problem of stalling participants by a fault recovery protocol.Finally, we compare our implementation with OVN and show that our work achieves comparable costs in terms of gas consumption.

English abstract

Voting is a means to agree on a collective decision based on choices available (e.g., candidates) where participants (voters) agree to abide by their outcome. To improve trust in voting, decentralized solutions based on a blockchain can be employed. A blockchain ensures that all entities in the voting system have the same view of the actions made by others due to the immutable log. Existing blockchain-based boardroom voting implementation called Open Voting Network (OVN) supports only two candidates. We present a blockchain-based approach for decentralized 1-out-of-k voting and provide a cost-optimized implementation using Ethereum. We resolve the problem of stalling participants by a fault recovery protocol.Finally, we compare our implementation with OVN and show that our work achieves comparable costs in terms of gas consumption.

Keywords

  • E-Voting
  • Privacy,
  • Bulletin Board,
  • Secret Ballot,
  • Smart Contracts,
  • Multi-party Computation,
  • Zero-knowledge Proof,
  • Votes Cast,
  • Single Transaction,
  • Public Blockchain,

Key words in English

  • E-Voting
  • Privacy,
  • Bulletin Board,
  • Secret Ballot,
  • Smart Contracts,
  • Multi-party Computation,
  • Zero-knowledge Proof,
  • Votes Cast,
  • Single Transaction,
  • Public Blockchain,

Authors

HOMOLIAK, I.; LI, Z.; SZALACHOWSKI, P.

RIV year

2025

Released

15.12.2023

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

Hainan

ISBN

979-8-3503-1929-3

Book

2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)

Pages from

297

Pages to

306

Pages count

11

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411494

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT185109,
  author="HOMOLIAK, I. and LI, Z. and SZALACHOWSKI, P.",
  title="BBB-Voting: Self-Tallying End-to-End Verifiable 1-out-of-k Blockchain-Based Boardroom Voting",
  booktitle="2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain)",
  year="2023",
  pages="297--306",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
  address="Hainan",
  doi="10.1109/Blockchain60715.2023.00054",
  isbn="979-8-3503-1929-3",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411494"
}