Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes

Adam McCarthy, Ben Smyth & Elizabeth A. Quaglia (2014) Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes. In FC'14: 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, LNCS 8437, Springer, pp. 51-63.

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Abstract

The cryptographic foundations of e-auction and e-voting schemes are similar, for instance, seminal works in both domains have applied mixnets, homomorphic encryption, and trapdoor bit-commitments. However, these developments have appeared independently and the two communities are disjoint. In this paper, we demonstrate a relation between e-auction and e-voting: we present Hawk and Aucitas, two e-auction schemes derived from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes. Our results make progress towards the unification of the e-auction and e-voting domains.

Bibtex Entry

@inproceedings{2014-Hawk-and-Aucitas-auction-schemes,
	author = "Adam McCarthy and Ben Smyth and Elizabeth A. Quaglia",
	title = "{Hawk and Aucitas: e-auction schemes from the Helios and Civitas e-voting schemes}",
	year = "2014",
	booktitle = "FC'14: 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security",
	publisher = "Springer",
	series = "LNCS",
	volume = "8437",
	pages = "51--63",
	doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-45472-5_4",
}