An information theoretically secure e-lottery scheme based on symmetric bivariate polynomials (Q2334963)
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An information theoretically secure e-lottery scheme based on symmetric bivariate polynomials (English)
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13 November 2019
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Summary: E-lottery schemes have attracted much interest from both industry and academia recently, because they are not only useful to raise funds for charity institutions, but also can be used as the major building blocks to design micro-payment systems. In the literature, a number of e-lottery schemes have been introduced over the last two decades. However, most of these schemes rely on some computational assumptions. In this paper, we introduce a novel e-lottery scheme that achieves information theoretical security. Our proposed scheme is designed using symmetric bivariate polynomials, and it satisfies the required security properties, such as correctness, unpredictability, verifiability, and robustness. Moreover, the winning number is generated in a distributed fashion, so that no trusted third party needs to be involved and the danger of a single point of failure is minimized.
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e-lottery
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symmetric bivariate polynomial
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verifiable secret sharing
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information theoretical security
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