TY - GEN
T1 - A Blockchain-Based Scalable Approach to Protecting Electronic Voting from Central Authority Attacks
AU - Anderson, Brandon D.
AU - Yau, Stephen S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In order to have a trustworthy electronic voting system, the system is required to protect voter privacy, ensure election integrity, and provide means of verifiability in a trusted and secure manner. Recently, blockchain has been used to improve election integrity significantly. The use of blockchain has significant benefits for both universal and individual voter verifiability due to the property of immutability of the blockchain. However, it can quickly run into scalability problems when protecting voter eligibility qualification and voter privacy. Some existing scalable electronic voting approaches are subject to attacks from central authorities. In this paper, a scalable approach to protecting electronic voting from central authority attacks is presented. The biased blind multisignature is developed and used to improve the scalability of our approach. It is shown that this approach is substantially better than the existing approaches.
AB - In order to have a trustworthy electronic voting system, the system is required to protect voter privacy, ensure election integrity, and provide means of verifiability in a trusted and secure manner. Recently, blockchain has been used to improve election integrity significantly. The use of blockchain has significant benefits for both universal and individual voter verifiability due to the property of immutability of the blockchain. However, it can quickly run into scalability problems when protecting voter eligibility qualification and voter privacy. Some existing scalable electronic voting approaches are subject to attacks from central authorities. In this paper, a scalable approach to protecting electronic voting from central authority attacks is presented. The biased blind multisignature is developed and used to improve the scalability of our approach. It is shown that this approach is substantially better than the existing approaches.
KW - Blockchain
KW - biased blind multisignature
KW - cryptography
KW - election integrity
KW - electronic voting
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U2 - 10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech52372.2021.00120
DO - 10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech52372.2021.00120
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127607882
T3 - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2021
SP - 724
EP - 730
BT - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and 2021 International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2021
Y2 - 25 October 2021 through 28 October 2021
ER -