dbosk / crocus

Securely and privately verifiable protests

Securely and Privately Verifiable Protests

This is the source code for a paper on a scheme for verifying the participation count of a protest in a privacy-preserving way.

The correct citation for the latest version of the paper is:

@inproceedings{ProtestVerif,
  title={Securely and Privately Verifiable Protests},
  author={%
    Daniel Bosk and
    Sonja Buchegger and
    Sébastien Gambs
  },
  URL={https://github.com/dbosk/ProtestVerif/},
}

Pre-compiled versions and their BibTeX entries can be found under Releases.

Repo structure and compilation

This repo requires some submodules. Either you cloned the repo using

git clone --recursive

or you have to get the submodules yourself:

git submodule update --init

To update the code (i.e. pull the latest version) you must update the submodules after the pull:

git pull
git submodule update

The file structure:

• paper/ contains the LaTeX code for the paper.

• slides/ contains the LaTeX code for the slides. This is a full set of slides (using beamerarticle) where the actual slides are in the paper source. So the actual slide contents is in paper/.

• poster/ contains the LaTeX code for the poster. This is independent from the other two. You will need xcftools and ImageMagick to convert the GIMP images (.xcf) to PNG (.png).

Each directory contains a Makefile with instructions on how to build. Just run make in the directory of interest and it will work as expected.

File structure

Makefile contains the build instructions and the files' dependencies. Typing make in the root directory will recurse into the subdirectories.

venues.md contains a list of possible venues and approaching deadlines.

Generally, for the directories. The contents is in the file contents.tex and most probably include other files. The preamble is kept in the preamble.tex file.

preamble.tex contains the main preamble. Some things must be different for the paper and the slides though, e.g. theorem environments, then the corresponding code must be entered into preamble-paper.tex and preamble-slides.tex, respectively.

contents.tex contains the main contents, both for slides and paper. This file in turn includes other files for modularization.