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Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile

Numberphile · 197.9K views · 2016-11-07 · 8:34

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Numberphile interviews cryptographer Ron Rivest about end-to-end verifiable voting. He explains how homomorphic encryption and receipts let a voter confirm their ballot was counted without being able to prove how they voted to anyone else.

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HN commenters point to it in election-security threads as an accessible explainer of how a vote can be verifiable but not sellable.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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c1ccccc1 · 2024-11 · Recommendation

Cryptographers are clever and have figured out a way to let you know your vote was counted without being able to prove it to a third party! [VIDEO]

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PyroLagus · 2019-06 · Recommendation

> I've seen many proposed implementations but they all fail because if I can prove my vote to myself in any way, someone else can make me prove it to them either to buy or coerce my ballot. There is a way to prove that your vote was counted without being able to prove what you voted for by using homomorphic encryption. So, if someone wanted to coerce you or pay you for voting at all for whomever you want, they could do it, but that's fine. Microsoft is actually working with Galois on a system operating on this principle[1], and here's a good video explaining the basic concepts of how it works[2]. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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YokoZar · 2019-05 · Recommendation

The mechanism for voter verification is based on homomorphic encryption. Numberphile made a video on this topic recently, with a few basic explainers: [VIDEO]

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