Design for Enhanced Security and Convenience of E - Voting Scheme

The popularity of Internet has altered the traditional way of life and behavioral patterns. Indeed, while the Internet has brought great convenience, it has also highlighted numerous issues for network security. Many countries are committed to the development of e-voting, which would help societies reduce the amount of resources allocated for traditional elections. However, most literatures exploring the signature mechanisms of electronic elections only address research and technology pertaining to the single voting scheme and single blind signature mechanism. Further, these electoral processes typically exploit only blind signature rather than encryption. In the case where multiple votes are cast simultaneously by a single voter, thereby requiring various ballots to be signed electronically, both the processing speed of the server as well as the security of the ballots would be greatly compromised. This study thus examines the mechanism that would accord a more efficient and secure design for the e-voting system, which would also take into account the immediacy of proxy voting as well as the need to ensure voters’ anonymity. This research focuses on the implementation of the Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem and its capacity to generate computations rapidly as its foundation. The properties of blind signature and proxy signature in proxy blind signature are engaged to facilitate the signcyrption of multiple ballots simultaneously. It further harnessed the avalanche effect in the design of encryption to increase the difficulty of deciphering ciphertext. In all, these designs, which enhance the overall efficiency and security of the e-voting system, would be applicable to an e-voting mechanism that features multiple and varied polls in the future.