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Scytl´s researchers have built their scientific careers in different universities and private companies. To date, they have published more than 25 papers in the field of electronic voting security.
Articles & Publications
Articles & Publications

Some research studies have been published in different articles and conferences:



Jordi Puiggalí
Bringing Transparency to Internet Voting
TEDxBARCELONA Science 2011. Barcelona, Spain. November, 2011.


Jordi Puiggalí
Las matemáticas en el mundo electoral: más allá del simple recuento de votos.

III Jornadas de la Red de Matemáticas en la Sociedad de la Información. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Noviembre 2011

Sandra Guasch

Cryptographic protocols for providing transparency and auditability in remote electronic voting schemes

Spanish Cryptography Days (SCD 2011). Murcia, Spain. November 2011


Jordi Puiggalí, Sandra Guasch
Internet Voting System with Cast as Intended Verification
VoteID 2011. Tallinn, Estonia, September 2011.


Sandra Guasch
Practical considerations for the implementation of end-to-end verifiable eVoting

International eVoting PhD Workshop 2011 in Krems/Vienna (Austria). May 7th and 8th of 2011


Jordi Puiggalí, Sandra Guasch
Verifiability on remote e-voting systems
Swiss E-Voting Workshop 2010. Friburg, September 2010.

Alex Escala, Carlos Luna, Sandra Guasch
Implementación de la generación y firma RSA distribuida en procesos de voto electrónico
Recsi 2010: XI Reunión española sobre criptología y seguridad de la información. Tarragona, Septiembre 2010.

Jordi Puiggalí, Sandra Guasch
Eficiencia y Privacidad en una Mixnet Universalmente Verificable
Recsi 2010: XI Reunión española sobre criptología y seguridad de la información. Tarragona, Septiembre 2010.

Jordi Puiggalí, Jesús Chóliz, Sandra Guasch
Best practices in Internet Voting
NIST: Workshop on UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems. Washington DC, August 2010.

Jordi Puiggalí, Sandra Guasch
Universally Verifiable Efficient Re-encryption Mixnet
EVOTE2010: The 4th International Conference on Electronic Voting, Bregenz (Austria), July 2010.

Jordi Puiggalí, Sandra Guasch.

Privacy and Anonymity Management in Electronic Voting
UPGRADE: Monographic in Identity and Privacy Management, Vol. XI, Issue 1, February 2010, pages 59-95.


Francesc Sebé, Josep M. Miret, Jordi Pujolàs, Jordi Puiggalí.

Simple and Efficient Hash-based Verifiable Mixing for Remote Electronic Voting
Computer Communications, Volume 33, Issue 6, 15 April 2010, Pages 667-675 (available online since 17 November 2009)


Victor Morales Rocha, Jordi Puiggali, Miguel Soriano.

New voter verification scheme using pre-encrypted ballots
Computer Communications, Volume 32, Issues 7-10, 28 May 2009, Pages 1219-1227


Victor Morales Rocha, Jordi Puiggali, Miguel Soriano

Secure Remote Voter Registration
EVOTE08: The 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting, Bregenz (Austria), August 2008.


Jordi Puiggali, Victor Morales Rocha

Remote Voting Schemes: A Comparative Analysis
VOTE-ID 2007: First Conference on E-Voting and Identity, Bochum (Germany), October 2007.


Angus Whyte, Alexandros Xenakis, Jordi Puiggali, Ann Macintosh

Mobile Services for Parliamentarians: Drivers & Expectations
Sixth International EGOV Conference 2007 (EGOV 2007), Regensburg (Germany), September 2007.


Jordi Puiggalí, Victor Morales Rocha

Independent Voter Verifiability for Remote Electronic Voting
International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2007), Barcelona (Spain), July 2007.


Andreu Riera, Jordi Puiggali, Jordi Castellà

Aproximació Tecnològica al vot electrònic (Technological Approach to Electronic Voting). Chapter of the book "El vot electronic a Catalunya: reptes i incerteses"
ISBN 978-84-8334-808-6. Editorial Mediterrània/Fundació Jaume Bofill, April 2007.


Jordi Puiggali.

Introduction to Remote Electronic Voting

esCERT Master on Information Security Technologies. (MTSI-5), Barcelona, January 2007.


Jordi Puiggali, Andreu Riera.

Voter-Verifiability through Independent Electronic Verification Modules.

Workshop on Frontiers in Electronic Elections. (FEE 2005), Milan, September 2005.


Andreu Riera, Jordi Puiggali, Paul Brown.

Applied Cryptography Enabling Trustworthy Electronic Voting.

Workshop on Voter Verifiable Elections. Denver, July 2003


Andreu Riera, Jordi Puiggali.

Software Development for Online Voting. Conference "e-Voting: Challenges for the Society"

Praxis Center for Policy Studies. Tallinn, June 2003.


Andreu Riera, Paul Brown, José Antonio Ortega.

Advanced Security to Enable Trustworthy Electronic Voting.

3rd European Conference on e-Government. Trinity College , Dublin , June 2003.


Andreu Riera, Jordi Sánchez, Laia Torres.

Internet Voting: Embracing Technology in Electoral Processes. Chapter of the book "Electronic Government: Design, Application and Management".

ISBN 1-930708-19-X. Idea Group Publishing, 2002.


Andreu Riera, Josep Rifà, Joan Borrell.

Efficient Construction of Vote-Tags to Allow Open Objection to the Tally in Electronic Elections.

Information Processing Letters, Vol. 75, n. 4, pp. 211-215, October 2000.


Andreu Riera, Joan Borrell.

Practical Approach to Anonymity in Large Scale Electronic Voting Schemes.

Proceedings of the 1999 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS'99), pp, 69-82. ISBN 1-891562-04-5, Internet Society, Reston, VA, 1999


Andreu Riera, Joan Borrell, Josep Rifà.

An Uncoercible Verifiable Electronic Voting Scheme.

Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 14th International Conference on Information Security (SEC'98), pp. 349-362. ISBN 03-85403-116-5, Austrian Computer Society, Vienna, 1998.


Andreu Riera, Joan Borrell, Josep Rifà.

Large Scale Elections by Coordinating Electoral Colleges.

Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 13th International Conference on Information Security (SEC'97), pp. 349-362. ISBN 0-412-81780-2, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997.