Cryptography offers a number of benefits to electronic voting and counting solutions. It may be used to perform tasks such as encrypting votes and digital ballot boxes, ensuring votes and software are unmodified, verifying the identity of a voter before he or she casts a ballot, and assisting in auditing and tallying the results of an election. Traditionally, cryptography (from the Greek for “hidden writing”) was used to conceal information between two people using a secret key known only to them. Over time, it expanded into the art and science of using mathematics (in the form of algorithms) to hide information, protect privacy, ensure files are not altered and prove the identity of a message’s sender. Considering the paramount importance of ballot secrecy and fraud detection, cryptography has.....

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