In a democratic country voting is one of the most important activities. However, many eligible voters do not exercise their right simply because they do not want to visit a public booth where they can vote. In 1981, David Chaum first introduced the concept of electronic voting and attempted to overcome the prob¬lems associated with the traditional voting environment. Hereafter, Mu and Varadharajan proposed in 1998 an anonymous secure e-voting scheme over a net¬work. They claimed that the proposed scheme is not only capable of preventing double voting but it can also protect the privacy of voters. However, many re¬searchers afterwards have discovered that Mu and Varadharajan’s scheme is not se¬cure. Attackers can easily forge a valid ballot and can vote more than once. In this paper, an e-voting scheme based on Mu and Varadharajan’s scheme is proposed that meets the following e-voting requirements: democracy, accuracy, anonymity, mobility and efficiency.
BT - Information & Security: An International Journal DA - 2004 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11610/isij.1512 IS - 2 LA - eng N2 -In a democratic country voting is one of the most important activities. However, many eligible voters do not exercise their right simply because they do not want to visit a public booth where they can vote. In 1981, David Chaum first introduced the concept of electronic voting and attempted to overcome the prob¬lems associated with the traditional voting environment. Hereafter, Mu and Varadharajan proposed in 1998 an anonymous secure e-voting scheme over a net¬work. They claimed that the proposed scheme is not only capable of preventing double voting but it can also protect the privacy of voters. However, many re¬searchers afterwards have discovered that Mu and Varadharajan’s scheme is not se¬cure. Attackers can easily forge a valid ballot and can vote more than once. In this paper, an e-voting scheme based on Mu and Varadharajan’s scheme is proposed that meets the following e-voting requirements: democracy, accuracy, anonymity, mobility and efficiency.
PY - 2004 SP - 181 EP - 195 T2 - Information & Security: An International Journal TI - Improved Anonymous Secure e-Voting over a Network VL - 15 ER -