Towards Blockchain-Based E-Voting Systems

  • Chiara Braghin
  • , Stelvio Cimato
  • , Simone Raimondi Cominesi
  • , Ernesto Damiani
  • , Lara Mauri

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Abstract

Electronic voting is one of the most challenging cryptographic problems, since the developed system should guarantee strong and sometimes contrasting security properties. Blockchain technology can be of help providing for free some important guarantees such as the immutability and transparency of the votes using a distributed ledger. In this paper we propose a blockchain based e-voting system, which is lightweight, since it does not rely on strong cryptographic primitives, and efficient, since it improves over previous proposals in terms of both execution time and associated cost for the required infrastructure. We provide the description of a proof of concept system together with the cost and performance analysis.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationBusiness Information Systems Workshops - BIS 2019, International Workshops, Revised Papers
EditorsWitold Abramowicz, Rafael Corchuelo
PublisherSpringer
Pages274-286
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030366902
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2019 - Seville, Spain
Duration: 26 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume373 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySeville
Period26/06/1928/06/19

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptographic protocol
  • E-Voting
  • Ethereum

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