https://sequentech.io/blog/ Sequent is the world’s first online voting platform to ensure the highest level of confidence in elections for voters, election managers, and auditors en https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-is-homomorphic-tallying/ https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-is-homomorphic-tallying/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:54:07 GMT Voting systems based on homomorphic tallying leverage the power of encryption’s homomorphic property to compute tallies. https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-is-end-to-end-verifiable-voting/ https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-is-end-to-end-verifiable-voting/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:28:29 GMT End-to-end auditable or end-to-end voter-verifiable (E2E) voting systems have a high level of integrity and are resistant to tampering. https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-are-online-voting-systems/ https://sequentech.io/glossary/what-are-online-voting-systems/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:20:17 GMT Online voting systems are websites or software programs that are designed to facilitate the process of online voting. https://sequentech.io/tech/blockchains-and-bulletin-boards/ https://sequentech.io/tech/blockchains-and-bulletin-boards/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Bulletin boards play a vital role in ensuring the integrity and verifiability of cryptographically secure voting systems. https://sequentech.io/research/degree-of-privacy-in-voting/ https://sequentech.io/research/degree-of-privacy-in-voting/ Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT This article demonstrates the natural extension of Diaz’s 2002 degree of anonymity model to voting scenarios. https://sequentech.io/research/a-toy-model-of-information-theoretic-security/ https://sequentech.io/research/a-toy-model-of-information-theoretic-security/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT In a previous post, we discussed different types of uncertainty due to limited information or computations as the basis for cryptography. https://sequentech.io/research/anonymity-pseudonymity-and-e-participation/ https://sequentech.io/research/anonymity-pseudonymity-and-e-participation/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT In this article, we will examine two papers related to the topic of anonymity in e-participation: Ruesch & Märker 2012 – “Making the Case for Anonymity in… https://sequentech.io/tech/a-bag-of-dev-container-tricks/ https://sequentech.io/tech/a-bag-of-dev-container-tricks/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT Nowadays, there are a lot of tools, libraries, IDEs & plugins that are supposed to make the life of developers easier. But this also adds complexity. https://sequentech.io/blog/homomorphic-vs-mixnet-based-e-voting/ https://sequentech.io/blog/homomorphic-vs-mixnet-based-e-voting/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Most systems, both prototypes in academia as well as production systems in industry, use one (or both) of these technologies to achieve the necessary… https://sequentech.io/case-study/bringing-sequents-end-to-end-verifiable-voting-solution-to-the-german-market/ https://sequentech.io/case-study/bringing-sequents-end-to-end-verifiable-voting-solution-to-the-german-market/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Based in Lueneburg, Germany, Electric Paper Informationssysteme (EPI) is a company that provides impactful solutions for the digitalization of the workplace… https://sequentech.io/tech/calling-go-code-from-rust-a-google-trillian-story/ https://sequentech.io/tech/calling-go-code-from-rust-a-google-trillian-story/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Although we have not officially announced any specific plan, it’s not a secret that at Sequent we’re developing our 2nd generation secure voting platform… https://sequentech.io/tech/a-universal-approach-to-election-verification-an-opportunity-for-increased-trust-in-elections/ https://sequentech.io/tech/a-universal-approach-to-election-verification-an-opportunity-for-increased-trust-in-elections/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT A voting system is termed end-to-end verifiable (E2EVV) if it provides procedures to check that all steps of the voting process are executed correctly. https://sequentech.io/tech/e-voting-wasm-cryptography/ https://sequentech.io/tech/e-voting-wasm-cryptography/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:46:37 GMT The Sequent Voting Platform is an open-source E2EV internet voting system currently used in private organisations and non-legally binding elections of public… https://sequentech.io/research/uncertainty-cryptography-and-information/ https://sequentech.io/research/uncertainty-cryptography-and-information/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:46:27 GMT This post will discuss three types of uncertainty and how they can be used to understand cryptography. https://sequentech.io/tech/plaintext-encoding-in-elgamal/ https://sequentech.io/tech/plaintext-encoding-in-elgamal/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT In cryptography, ElGamal is an asymmetric cryptosystem in which public and private keys are used to encrypt communication between two parties. https://sequentech.io/case-study/bringing-online-voting-to-spanish-political-party-podemos/ https://sequentech.io/case-study/bringing-online-voting-to-spanish-political-party-podemos/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Podemos is a Spanish political party with over 500K members that promotes participatory democracy.