S2024:E30
Electronic voting is hard. Really hard! Existing approaches to this problem make many tradeoffs, like leaking voter information or trusting voting authorities not to cheat. What we want is a way to conduct a vote electronically that respects voter privacy, allows anyone to verify the results are correct, and minimizes trust in voting and tallying authorities.
This talk will introduce Aura, a voting protocol that meets these goals. Aura uses several privacy-respecting techniques (including some from private transaction protocols!) to do this. We’ll provide a high-level overview of how it works and why it’s useful.
This talk should be accessible to everyone, and no particular technical background is assumed.
