Using Ring Signatures For An Anonymous E-Voting System

Kurbatov, Oleksandr; Kravchenko, Pavel; Poluyanenko, Nikolay; Shapoval, Oleksiy; Кузнецова, Тетяна

doi:10.1109/atit49449.2019.9030447

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“…It is also found to be safer than comparable systems. The author in [26] described how an anonymous decentralised e-voting system can be developed by using ring signature and blockchain technology. The aim is to guarantee verification of voting rights, anonymity, the correctness of the vote cast, and prevention of double waste attacks.…”

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Architecture-Centric Evaluation of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract E-Voting for National Elections

Daramola

Thebus

2020

Informatics

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E-voting is one of the valid use cases of blockchain technology with many blockchain e-voting systems already proposed. But efforts that focus on critical analysis of blockchain e-voting architectures for national elections from stakeholders’ perspectives are mostly lacking in the literature. Therefore, government decision-makers and election stakeholders do not yet have a sufficient basis to understand the potential risks, challenges, and prospects that are associated with blockchain e-voting. This paper demonstrates how the use of the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM) can enable stakeholders in national elections to understand the risks, prospects, and challenges that could be associated with a blockchain e-voting system for national elections. By using a study context of South Africa, a proposed blockchain e-voting architecture was used as a basis to aid election stakeholders to reason on the concept of blockchain e-voting to get them to understand the potential risks, security threats, critical requirements attributes, and weaknesses that could be associated with using blockchain e-voting for national elections. The study found that blockchain e-voting can prevent many security attacks, internal vote manipulation, and promote transparency. However, voter validation and the security of the blockchain architecture are potential weaknesses that will need significant attention.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Architecture-Centric Evaluation of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract E-Voting for National Elections

Daramola

Thebus

2020

Informatics

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“…Moreover, there is no assurance that every submitted ballot paper vote is counted and tallied. Additionally, during the submission of paper ballots or electronic ballots through EVS, the voter's details are also included with the ballot, violating one of the fundamental contexts of voter anonymity [3][4][5][6]. One of the most critical concerns in a voting system is to ensure security.…”

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“…The private key is the master key of an individual public address, so whoever owns the private key of an address is the owner of the public address and will have the full privilege to perform any transaction. Every transaction in a blockchain requires both the public key and private key to make the transaction more authentic and secure [5].…”

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A remote and cost‐optimized voting system using blockchain and smart contract

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Traditional voting procedures are non‐remote, time‐consuming, and less secure. While the voter believes their vote was submitted successfully, the authority does not provide evidence that the vote was counted and tallied. In most cases, the anonymity of a voter is also not sure, as the voter's details are included in the ballot papers. Many voters consider this voting system untrustworthy and manipulative, discouraging them from voting, and consequently, an election loses a significant number of participants. Although the inclusion of electronic voting systems (EVS) has increased efficiency; however, it has raised concerns over security, legitimacy, and transparency. To mitigate these problems, blockchain technology has been leveraged and smart contract facilities with a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) to propose a remote voting system that makes the overall voting procedure transparent, semi‐decentralized, and secure. In addition, a system that aids in boosting the number of turnouts in an election through an incentivization policy for the voters have also developed. Through the proposed virtual campaigning feature, the authority can generate a decent amount of revenue, which downsizes the overall cost of an election. To reduce the associated cost of transactions using smart contracts, this system implements a hybrid storage system where only a few cardinal data are stored in the blockchain network.

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“…In 2019, Kurbatov et al proposed to apply ring signatures to the construction of anonymous electronic voting schemes, but they did not give a specific implementation [8]. In 2020, an anonymous and coercion-resistant distributed electronic voting scheme was reported by Zaghloul et al, which uses the conditions of the parties' unwillingness to collude to reduce the possibility of voter information exposure [9].…”

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Profane or Not: Improving Korean Profane Detection using Deep Learning

2022

KSII TIIS

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With the development of quantum computers, ring signature schemes based on large integer prime factorization, discrete logarithm problem, and bilinear pairing are under threat. For this reason, we design a ring signature scheme based on lattice with a fixed verification key. Compared with the previous ring signature scheme based on lattice, our design has a fixed verification key and does not disclose the signer's identity. Meanwhile, we propose an anonymous electronic voting scheme by using our ring signature scheme based on lattice and (𝑡𝑡, 𝑛𝑛) threshold scheme, which makes up for the lack of current anonymous electronic voting that cannot resist attacks of the quantum computer. Finally, under standard model (SM), we prove that our ring signature scheme based on lattice is anonymous against the full-key exposure, and existentially non-forgeable against insider corruption. Furthermore, we also briefly analyze the security of our anonymous electronic voting scheme.

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Using Ring Signatures For An Anonymous E-Voting System

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Architecture-Centric Evaluation of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract E-Voting for National Elections

Architecture-Centric Evaluation of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract E-Voting for National Elections

A remote and cost‐optimized voting system using blockchain and smart contract

Profane or Not: Improving Korean Profane Detection using Deep Learning

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