Pnyx.core: The Key to Enabling Reliable Electronic Elections A Description of Scytl’s Cryptographic e-Voting Security Software
White Paper
Scytl Secure Electronic Voting
December 2005
https://www.scytl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Scytl_Pnyx-Core_-WHITE-PAPER.pdf
Adequate cryptographic solutions are needed whenever an election is conducted by electronic means (poll-site electronic voting systems using digital ballots or networked voting systems with remote ballot casting). Scytl has developed a cryptographic e- voting framework to enable reliable and trustful electronic elections. Scytl’s e-voting framework ensures the authenticity of ballots, privacy of voters, accuracy of election results, secrecy of intermediate results, verifiability of election results by voters, and uncoercibility (the prevention of vote-selling and coercion of voters).
This document describes Pnyx.core, the software product developed by Scytl to implement the patent-pending cryptographic protocols comprising Scytl’s e-voting framework. The most important among these protocols are: the ballot casting protocol, performed by voters in collaboration with a ballot box server; the mixing protocol, performed by electoral authorities to open up the digital ballot boxes; and the verification protocol, that allows voters to verify their ballots against the published results ensuring that their votes have been correctly accounted for. Scytl’s e-voting product Pnyx.core, named after the hill in ancient Athens where elections were performed, conforms the core of all Scytl’s e-voting solutions, and can be easily integrated into other electronic voting systems.