Authors:
Maider Huarte
;
Iñaki Goirizelaia
;
Juan José Unzilla
;
Juan J. Igarza
and
Jon Matías
Affiliation:
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Keyword(s):
Cryptography, Distributed Systems, e-Voting Systems, Fault Tolerance.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data and Application Security and Privacy
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Privacy
;
Security and Privacy in Complex Systems
;
Security Engineering
;
Security in Distributed Systems
;
Security in Information Systems
;
Security Protocols
Abstract:
This paper introduces a new Internet voting (i-voting) system based on an analysis of the related literature, oriented to democratic election principles (universality, equality, freedom and secrecy). The foundations compiled from that analysis include both technical and social aspects because achieving voter confidence is as important as creating “perfectly secure” systems when talking about democracy. The issues especially addressed in the new system are: full audit-capability, secure individual verification and vote-complaining, and N-Version Programming based robustness and transparency. Currently, this new i-voting system is being tested for performance and usability in our lab.