scholarly journals Secure Online Voting System using Visual Cryptography

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meher Gayatri Devi TIWARI ◽  
Anil Kumar KAKELLI
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Hardware Configuration ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Configuration Systems ◽  
Threshold Decryption ◽  
Cryptographic Techniques

The development of a secure online voting system using visual cryptography is highly essential for present voting systems. Based on the current requirements and design aspects of an existing online voting system, emerging technologies are required in online voting schemes, and these are examined in this work. The emerging cryptographic techniques which are suitable for secure online voting systems are analyzed. Techniques like password hashed-based schemes, visual cryptography, and threshold decryption cryptosystem are highlighted for secure online voting systems. Visual cryptography (VC) is a technique where visual information can be encrypted on the user side, with the information decrypted on the admin side, which can be helpful in allowing participation in voting systems securely and ensuring fast vote counting and monitoring of the voting process to achieve high accuracy while being scam-free. The proposed secure online voting system using visual cryptography is efficiently developed using Python and achieves better performance on minimum software and hardware configuration systems.

scholarly journals Implementation and Evaluation of Steganography Based Online Voting System

Cryptography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 391-414
Author(s):  
Lauretha Rura ◽  
Biju Issac ◽  
Manas Kumar Haldar
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Java Ee ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Threshold Decryption ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Degrading System

Though there are online voting systems available, the authors propose a new and secure steganography based E2E (end-to-end) verifiable online voting system, to tackle the problems in voting process. This research implements a novel approach to online voting by combining visual cryptography with image steganography to enhance system security without degrading system usability and performance. The voting system will also include password hashed-based scheme and threshold decryption scheme. The software is developed on web-based Java EE with the integration of MySQL database server and Glassfish as its application server. The authors assume that the election server used and the election authorities are trustworthy. A questionnaire survey of 30 representative participants was done to collect data to measure the user acceptance of the software developed through usability testing and user acceptance testing.

scholarly journals Implementation and Evaluation of Steganography Based Online Voting System

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauretha Rura ◽  
Biju Issac ◽  
Manas Kumar Haldar
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Java Ee ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Threshold Decryption ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Degrading System

Though there are online voting systems available, the authors propose a new and secure steganography based E2E (end-to-end) verifiable online voting system, to tackle the problems in voting process. This research implements a novel approach to online voting by combining visual cryptography with image steganography to enhance system security without degrading system usability and performance. The voting system will also include password hashed-based scheme and threshold decryption scheme. The software is developed on web-based Java EE with the integration of MySQL database server and Glassfish as its application server. The authors assume that the election server used and the election authorities are trustworthy. A questionnaire survey of 30 representative participants was done to collect data to measure the user acceptance of the software developed through usability testing and user acceptance testing.

scholarly journals Online Voting System - Powered by Blockchain

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Vaibhav Sinha and Sachin Garg
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Effective Scheme ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Voting Scheme ◽  
End To End ◽  
Online Voting

Electronic voting or e-voting has been used in varying forms since the 1970s with fundamental benefits over paper based systems such as increased efficiency and reduced errors. However, there remain challenges to achieve widespread adoption of such systems especially with respect to improving their resilience against potential faults. Blockchain is a disruptive technology of the current era and promises to improve the overall resilience of e-voting systems. This paper presents an effort to leverage benefits of blockchain such as cryptographic foundations and transparency to achieve an effective scheme for e voting. The proposed scheme conforms to the fundamental requirements for e-voting schemes and achieves end-to-end verifiability. The paper presents details of the proposed e-voting scheme along with its implementation using the Multichain platform. The paper presents in-depth evaluation of the scheme which successfully demonstrates its effectiveness to achieve an end-to-end verifiable e-voting scheme.

scholarly journals Development of audit and data protection principles in electronic voting systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2(112)) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Yuriy Khlaponin ◽  
Volodymyr Vyshniakov ◽  
Viktoriia Ternavska ◽  
Oleksandr Selyukov ◽  
Oleg Komarnytskyi
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Alarm Signal ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Standard Information ◽  
Software And Hardware

It is assumed in standard information protection technologies that there are owners of this information who put forward requirements for protection. In secret voting systems, the information belongs to the community of citizens, and to protect it, vote organizers must create conditions that allow each voter to make sure that the vote secrecy and accuracy of vote counting are preserved. In developed democracies, this issue is resolved through a widely available audit of all procedures that may be mistrusted. Any voter can conduct such an audit. The anxiety of citizens of democratic countries is based on the idea that if electronic voting is introduced, it will be impossible to conduct such an audit. The article proposes principles of auditing all those software and hardware tools and processes of the online voting system that can generate voter distrust. This audit is carried out using a dedicated server open to voters and their fiduciaries. This server provides continuous monitoring of actions of the service staff in terms of possible interference in the operation of the voting system. Also, due to this server, auditors receive data on the integrity of the voting system hardware and software including its audit tools and an alarm signal in the event of a threat. It was possible to reduce the average time of processing the voter requests to two seconds. This means that processing a maximum of 2,500 voter requests at a vote station will take no more than two hours. Simultaneous access of 50 voters to the server will not make them wait in the queue for more than 2 minutes. Implementation results were described and links were given for conducting experimental voting on the Internet.

scholarly journals Blockchain for Electronic Voting System—Review and Open Research Challenges

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5874
Author(s):  
Uzma Jafar ◽  
Mohd Juzaiddin Ab Aziz ◽  
Zarina Shukur
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Election Systems ◽  
Electronic Voting System

Online voting is a trend that is gaining momentum in modern society. It has great potential to decrease organizational costs and increase voter turnout. It eliminates the need to print ballot papers or open polling stations—voters can vote from wherever there is an Internet connection. Despite these benefits, online voting solutions are viewed with a great deal of caution because they introduce new threats. A single vulnerability can lead to large-scale manipulations of votes. Electronic voting systems must be legitimate, accurate, safe, and convenient when used for elections. Nonetheless, adoption may be limited by potential problems associated with electronic voting systems. Blockchain technology came into the ground to overcome these issues and offers decentralized nodes for electronic voting and is used to produce electronic voting systems mainly because of their end-to-end verification advantages. This technology is a beautiful replacement for traditional electronic voting solutions with distributed, non-repudiation, and security protection characteristics. The following article gives an overview of electronic voting systems based on blockchain technology. The main goal of this analysis was to examine the current status of blockchain-based voting research and online voting systems and any related difficulties to predict future developments. This study provides a conceptual description of the intended blockchain-based electronic voting application and an introduction to the fundamental structure and characteristics of the blockchain in connection to electronic voting. As a consequence of this study, it was discovered that blockchain systems may help solve some of the issues that now plague election systems. On the other hand, the most often mentioned issues in blockchain applications are privacy protection and transaction speed. For a sustainable blockchain-based electronic voting system, the security of remote participation must be viable, and for scalability, transaction speed must be addressed. Due to these concerns, it was determined that the existing frameworks need to be improved to be utilized in voting systems.

Democratic Governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Leslie Mark Pannir Selvam ◽  
Vasaki Ponnusamy ◽  
Khalid Rafique
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
The Way

In any democratic nation, electoral processes pave the way to democratic governance. In regards to this, a fully digitized online voting system should be introduced, and governments should invest efforts in studying the possibilities in adopting online voting system to curb the issues mentioned above. In that sense, any user should be allowed to cast his/her vote from any remote location, and the processes should be held in full confidentiality without any intervention or possible vulnerabilities. Therefore, this chapter investigates how governments can learn various initiatives and provide funding to further conduct research and implement such methodologies. The chapter begins by exploring some traditional and current practice of electoral system and further embarks into a review of secured online voting systems that has been proposed by the body of knowledge. The chapter then presents how some countries have adopted this secured online voting systems and giving an avenue to secured digital electoral governance.

scholarly journals SECURE ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM USING VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 543-552
Author(s):  
Meher Gayatri Devi Tiwari ◽  
◽  
Kakelli Anil Kumar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting

scholarly journals Going from bad to worse: from Internet voting to blockchain voting

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunoo Park ◽  
Michael Specter ◽  
Neha Narula ◽  
Ronald L Rivest
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Online Voting ◽  
Election Systems ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Voters are understandably concerned about election security. News reports of possible election interference by foreign powers, of unauthorized voting, of voter disenfranchisement, and of technological failures call into question the integrity of elections worldwide. This article examines the suggestions that “voting over the Internet” or “voting on the blockchain” would increase election security, and finds such claims to be wanting and misleading. While current election systems are far from perfect, Internet- and blockchain-based voting would greatly increase the risk of undetectable, nation-scale election failures. Online voting may seem appealing: voting from a computer or smartphone may seem convenient and accessible. However, studies have been inconclusive, showing that online voting may have little to no effect on turnout in practice, and it may even increase disenfranchisement. More importantly, given the current state of computer security, any turnout increase derived from Internet- or blockchain-based voting would come at the cost of losing meaningful assurance that votes have been counted as they were cast, and not undetectably altered or discarded. This state of affairs will continue as long as standard tactics such as malware, zero day, and denial-of-service attacks continue to be effective. This article analyzes and systematizes prior research on the security risks of online and electronic voting, and shows that not only do these risks persist in blockchain-based voting systems, but blockchains may introduce ‘additional’ problems for voting systems. Finally, we suggest questions for critically assessing security risks of new voting system proposals.

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