Secured Electronic Voting Protocol Using Biometric Authentication

Kalaichelvi Visvalingam, R. M. Chandrasekaran

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DOI: 10.4236/ait.2011.12006                

Abstract

This paper proposes a new secure e-voting protocol. This new scheme does not require a special voting channel and communication can occur entirely over the existing Internet. This method integrates Internet convenience and cryptology. In the existing protocols either the tallier has to wait for the decryption key from voter till the voting process is over or the verification process has to wait until the election is over. But in the proposed single transaction voting protocol the entire voting process as well as the verification process is done as a single transaction compared to multiple transactions in the existing protocol. The advantage of single transaction is that it consumes less time that results in overall speeding up the voting process. It is shown that the proposed scheme satisfies the more important requirements of any e-voting scheme: completeness, correctness, privacy, security and uniqueness. Finally, the proposed protocol is compared with the existing protocols such as Simple, Two Agency, Blind Signatures and sensus protocols.

Keywords

Online Voting, Cryptology, Privacy, Security and Internet

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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