A New Fully Auditable Proposal for an Internet Voting System with Secure Individual Verification and Complaining Capabilities

Maider Huarte, Iñaki Goirizelaia, Juan José Unzilla, Jon Matías, Juan J. Igarza

2013

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.

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Huarte M., Goirizelaia I., José Unzilla J., Matías J. and J. Igarza J. (2013). A New Fully Auditable Proposal for an Internet Voting System with Secure Individual Verification and Complaining Capabilities . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-73-0, pages 395-402. DOI: 10.5220/0004529803950402


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt13,
author={Maider Huarte and Iñaki Goirizelaia and Juan José Unzilla and Jon Matías and Juan J. Igarza},
title={A New Fully Auditable Proposal for an Internet Voting System with Secure Individual Verification and Complaining Capabilities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={395-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004529803950402},
isbn={978-989-8565-73-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)
TI - A New Fully Auditable Proposal for an Internet Voting System with Secure Individual Verification and Complaining Capabilities
SN - 978-989-8565-73-0
AU - Huarte M.
AU - Goirizelaia I.
AU - José Unzilla J.
AU - Matías J.
AU - J. Igarza J.
PY - 2013
SP - 395
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0004529803950402