Open AccessSecure Blockchain Decentralized Voting for Verified Users
Author(s) -
Piotr Pospiech,
Aleksander Mariański,
Michał Kędziora
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of network security and its applications/international journal of network security and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0975-2307
pISSN - 0974-9330
DOI - 10.5121/ijnsa.2021.13502
Subject(s) - blockchain , computer science , anonymity , scheme (mathematics) , computer security , voting , database transaction , smart contract , protocol (science) , encryption , code (set theory) , distributed computing , computer network , database , programming language , mathematics , medicine , mathematical analysis , alternative medicine , set (abstract data type) , pathology , politics , political science , law
The paper focuses onintroducing a decentralized e-voting scheme that uses blockchain to achieve security and anonymity. A blockchain network based on Ethereum was applied, to provide a decentralized and distributed database based on the Peer-to-Peer architecture. During the implementation, smart contractswere used. Thanks to this, it is possible to code the terms of the contract required to perform the transaction. The proof-of-conceptimplementation uses the blind signature protocol and encryption with the RSA algorithm. Presented in this paper scheme for blockchain decentralized voting is fully implemented and potential issues are analyzed and discussed.