Secure, Quantum-Safe, Practical Voting Technologies (EquiVox)

Developing and prototyping practical e-voting schemes that are secure against attackers capable of performing arbitrary quantum computations.

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Apr 2020
Duration in months:

36
Funding:

FNR
Principal Investigator(s):

Peter Ryan

About

Digital information and communication technologies, entrenched in the fabric of modern society, enrich and facilitate our lives. Used carefully, the very same tools can also serve to enrich and protect core mechanisms, such as elections, that are fundamental to the functioning of democratic societies. In effect, elections form the foundations of democracy and as such, ensuring their security is of the utmost importance. One of the major security challenges that ought to be dealt with is the threat posed by the emergence of quantum computers. Despite a considerable number of well-designed secure electronic voting schemes proposed over the past few decades, almost all existing schemes depend on cryptography which will be broken by quantum algorithms. Therefore, the goal of this project is to develop and prototype practical e-voting schemes that are secure against attackers capable of performing arbitrary quantum computations.