Using Ring Signatures For An Anonymous E-Voting System

This paper describes the mechanisms for using ring signatures to ensure anonymity in a decentralized e-voting system. Unlike standard signature algorithms that allow you to uniquely authenticate the authorship of the signature, a ring signature allows you to hide the true public key for verification among the public keys of other participants in the system. At the same time, the use of blockchain technology allows you to verify the integrity of the users votes, as well as verify their authenticity (binding with valid public keys) and to ensure transparency in the calculation of votes and verification of the correctness of the accounting of its votes by an individual user.