ConceptPaillier / Paillier cryptosystem
Paillier Encryption
An additively homomorphic public-key encryption scheme that allows addition operations to be performed on ciphertexts. It is commonly used in scenarios such as privacy-preserving vote tallying.
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In electronic voting, additive homomorphic schemes (such as Paillier encryption) are typically used, where tallying authorities multiply all encrypted ballots and decrypt the result to obtain each candidate's total vote count without decrypting any individual ballot.
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