TY - JOUR

T1 - Electronic anonymous voting system based on “blind” digital signature

AU - Dyachkova, Irina S.

AU - Rakitskiy, A. A.

N1 - The work was carried out within the framework of R&D No. 122031600164-6 dated March 15, 2022.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Nowadays, remote voting systems and applications become very popular, but they have some drawbacks, especially in terms of anonymity. The aim of the paper is to create a scheme for developing a reliable anonymous remote voting system. The methodology for designing such a scheme is based on the algorithm of “blind” ballots digital signature. This algorithm is one of the effective ways to generate and sign a voting ballot, where its encrypted voting results are transmitted to the ballot server without any information about user. A secret channel protocol was created to anonymously transfer ballots from voters to a server. This article proves the reliability of this method and also presents a recommended method for securely storing ballots as block chain transactions. In addition, possible threats to the security of the system were investigated and analyzed and there were presented possible ways to prevent them. As the result of this work, an effective scheme for creating an anonymous remote voting system with relatively small number of participants was described. Moreover, the reliability of the presented system was analyzed and it was demonstrated that the system of anonymous remote voting is not affected by possible vulnerabilities discovered during the investigation. As a result of the performed research, it was shown that the presented anonymous remote voting scheme is a good alternative to traditional voting and other similar systems.

AB - Nowadays, remote voting systems and applications become very popular, but they have some drawbacks, especially in terms of anonymity. The aim of the paper is to create a scheme for developing a reliable anonymous remote voting system. The methodology for designing such a scheme is based on the algorithm of “blind” ballots digital signature. This algorithm is one of the effective ways to generate and sign a voting ballot, where its encrypted voting results are transmitted to the ballot server without any information about user. A secret channel protocol was created to anonymously transfer ballots from voters to a server. This article proves the reliability of this method and also presents a recommended method for securely storing ballots as block chain transactions. In addition, possible threats to the security of the system were investigated and analyzed and there were presented possible ways to prevent them. As the result of this work, an effective scheme for creating an anonymous remote voting system with relatively small number of participants was described. Moreover, the reliability of the presented system was analyzed and it was demonstrated that the system of anonymous remote voting is not affected by possible vulnerabilities discovered during the investigation. As a result of the performed research, it was shown that the presented anonymous remote voting scheme is a good alternative to traditional voting and other similar systems.

KW - anonymous data transmission

KW - anonymous voting

KW - blockchain technology

KW - cryptography

KW - threat analysis

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UR - https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=62415626

U2 - 10.25743/ICT.2024.29.1.006

DO - 10.25743/ICT.2024.29.1.006

M3 - Article

VL - 29

SP - 59

EP - 73

JO - Вычислительные технологии

JF - Вычислительные технологии

SN - 1560-7534

IS - 1

ER -