Open dckc opened 4 years ago
@TheoXD has been investigating https://github.com/fentec-project/CiFEr
wish: decryption in rholang
Helios Voting provides secret ballots. It's a turn-key solution.
It also uses postgres, so presumably the same mirroring approach could apply... though I'm not sure that would preserve confidentiality.
https://github.com/benadida/helios-server/blob/master/INSTALL.md
@leithaus said the coop (secretary) does not need to know which member voted for what.
idea: a low-tech social approach...
The governance committee could be empowered (by the board) to collect votes confidentially.
A member could choose to meet confidentially with at least 3 members of the governance committee who would authenticate the member and communicate their vote to the secretary without sharing it with the rest of the membership (let alone the world).
The governance committee as a whole would share some audit trail with the board and membership, such as "we collected votes from 7 members confidentially."
@dckc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot Maybe this can give some ideas.
I don't (yet?) see a way through these constraints:
I have read some articles that do seem to meet many of these constraints, but they seem to involve elaborate use of elliptic curve cryptography; in particular, they start with the voters having key pairs, not just email addresses.