New Directions in Crypto-Politics

With the emergence of modern secure digital systems, various technologies are being used in polling and government procedures. However, they have been proposed and applied in a way that is conventional and not innovative. This article proposes a change of perspective that favors a political framework in line with human dignity, consisting of individual freedom and equality before the law. Through various schemes, cryptographic protocols, and based on some elements of monero cryptocurrency (one of the most secure in existence)—such as double pairs of private and public keys, subaddresses, one-time ring signatures, and elliptic curve cryptography—this article presents a responsible voting scheme with profit and loss criteria for voters that is able to further the base political framework. In addition, multiple problems are addressed, including ballot counting, double voting, electoral fraud, and politicians’, political parties’ and voters’ responsibilities.