24-06-2014, 11:18 AM
Secure Electronic Voting System Based on Image Steganography
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ABSTRACT
As information technology evolves over time, the need for a better, faster, more convenient and secure electronic voting is relevant since the traditional election procedures cannot satisfy all of voter’s demands. To increase the number of voters and to offer an enhanced procedure in an election, many researchers have been introducing novel and advanced approaches to secure electronic voting systems. This paper proposes a secure electronic voting system that provides enhanced security by implementing cryptography and steganography in Java. As a preliminary investigation, two steganography techniques are considered and their performances are compared for different image file formats.
Voting has played a major role in the democratic societies. Traditional voting procedure uses paper-based ballot. However, this approach is costly, inconvenient and time consuming for voters. Many people nowadays prefer a more instant way to vote. With the evolution of computer technology, many researchers are proposing secure, reliable and convenient electronic voting systems as a substitute to the traditional voting procedure. It thus helps to encourage each voter to make use of their right to vote. Such systems have to be designed to satisfy the following requirements.
In the recent years, researchers are more focusing on developing a new technology which can support uncoercibility, receipt-freeness and also universal-verifiability. Many end-to-end verifiable systems (E2E) are proposed and being widely used. In principle, E2E voting system offer assurance to the voters as they cast their vote by distributing a receipt of their vote which can be used for verification purpose from the overall tabulation of the collected votes. Yet on the other hand, this receipt cannot be used as a proof in vote buying or vote coercion although all of the receipts will be posted publicly in a secured append-only Bulletin Board once the voter finished the voting process. Therefore, the E2E system would still protect the voter’s privacy
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ABSTRACT
As information technology evolves over time, the need for a better, faster, more convenient and secure electronic voting is relevant since the traditional election procedures cannot satisfy all of voter’s demands. To increase the number of voters and to offer an enhanced procedure in an election, many researchers have been introducing novel and advanced approaches to secure electronic voting systems. This paper proposes a secure electronic voting system that provides enhanced security by implementing cryptography and steganography in Java. As a preliminary investigation, two steganography techniques are considered and their performances are compared for different image file formats.
Voting has played a major role in the democratic societies. Traditional voting procedure uses paper-based ballot. However, this approach is costly, inconvenient and time consuming for voters. Many people nowadays prefer a more instant way to vote. With the evolution of computer technology, many researchers are proposing secure, reliable and convenient electronic voting systems as a substitute to the traditional voting procedure. It thus helps to encourage each voter to make use of their right to vote. Such systems have to be designed to satisfy the following requirements.
In the recent years, researchers are more focusing on developing a new technology which can support uncoercibility, receipt-freeness and also universal-verifiability. Many end-to-end verifiable systems (E2E) are proposed and being widely used. In principle, E2E voting system offer assurance to the voters as they cast their vote by distributing a receipt of their vote which can be used for verification purpose from the overall tabulation of the collected votes. Yet on the other hand, this receipt cannot be used as a proof in vote buying or vote coercion although all of the receipts will be posted publicly in a secured append-only Bulletin Board once the voter finished the voting process. Therefore, the E2E system would still protect the voter’s privacy