Enabling fair and privacy-preserving applications using reconciliation protocols on ordered sets

Abstract

Fair and privacy-preserving reconciliation protocols on ordered sets have been introduced recently. Despite the fact that these protocols promise to have a great impact in a variety of applications, so far their practical use has been explored to a limited extent only. This paper addresses this gap. As main contributions, this paper identifies e-voting, auctions, event scheduling, and policy reconciliation as four far-reaching areas of application and shows how fair and privacy-preserving reconciliation protocols can be used effectively in these contexts.