Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting

ePrint Report: Cicada: A framework for private non-interactive on-chain auctions and voting

Noemi Glaeser, István András Seres, Michael Zhu, Joseph Bonneau

Auction and voting schemes play a crucial role in the Web3 ecosystem. Yet currently deployed implementations either do not offer bid/vote privacy or require at least two rounds, hindering usability and security. We introduce Cicada, a general framework for using linearly homomorphic time-lock puzzles (HTLPs) to enable provably secure, non-interactive private auction and voting protocols. We instantiate our framework …

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