Distributed Remote E-Voting System Based on Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme

Abstract

A number of e-voting systems have been proposed in the last decades, attracting the interest of the research community. The challenge is far from being fully addressed, especially for remote systems. In this work, we propose DiverSEC, a distributed, remote e-voting system based on Shamir secret sharing, operations in Galois field and mixnets, which enables end-to-end vote verification. Parties participate as nodes in the network, protecting their interests and ensuring process integrity due to the conflicting interests. The threat model is very conservative, not letting even the most privileged actors to compromise votes privacy or integrity. Security in depth is implemented, overlapping different mechanisms to offer guarantees even in the most adverse operating conditions. The main contributions of the resulting system are our proposal for secret-sharing among the political parties, which guarantees that no party can compromise the integrity of the ballot without being detected and identified in real time, and the computational and architectural scalability of the proposal, which make it easy to implement.

Improving the End to End Protection in E-voting using BVM - Blockchain based e-Voting Mechanism

“…E-voting, as a ways of refining the strength of electoral activities, depend on cryptographic techniques, predominantly blockchain cryptosystem, to defend the veracity of voter information. Within this perspective, the work illustrated the utilization of the Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (RSA) algorithm [37], a robust tool with flap technique that gets factoring huge prime numbers into their factor enormously tough. The RSA-Key Encapsulation Mechanism (RSA-KEM) was deployed as a protected voting strategy that processes with two layers: Symmetric and Public Key Layers and three essential tasks: key creation, encryption, and decryption.…”

“…Overall, the overview of an e-voting mechanism [15,37] is undoubtedly accompanied by a multitude of challenges, spanning methodical, practical, and statutory domains. Among the most significant flaws of such mechanisms are the deficiency of transparency and clarity, prominent to diminished trust, the absence of universally recognized standards, the persistent threat of fraud and influence, and the enhanced financial burdens on voting setup.…”