<p>Conducting elections via traditional techniques pose several issues such as lack of security, lack of adaptability, transparency and lack of management during voting process. It leads to a demand of flexible, transparent, secure and cost-effective voting system. Thus, the given paper introduces a novel and secured blockchain-based voting system that combines elliptic curved signing approach (ECDSA) and digital signatures. The proposed approach uses timestamp-based authentication with a digital signature protocol for validating voters and candidates during registration. The voting-based consensus ECDSA approach has been applied with the help of smart contracts to validate votes, adding blocks to the blockchain network thereby ensuring transparency in the voting process. Lastly, the performance of the proposed system is validated and compared with existing studies based on evaluation metrics such as response time (ms) and vote alteration (%). The results show that the proposed system attains the lowest response time (5.23 ms) and the lowest vote alteration rate (1.92%) thereby outperforming the existing works in the context of e-voting system.</p>

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An innovative and secured electronic voting system based on Elliptic Curved Signing Approach (ECDSA) and digital signatures

  • Chandra Shekhar,
  • Rakesh Kumar Yadav

摘要

Conducting elections via traditional techniques pose several issues such as lack of security, lack of adaptability, transparency and lack of management during voting process. It leads to a demand of flexible, transparent, secure and cost-effective voting system. Thus, the given paper introduces a novel and secured blockchain-based voting system that combines elliptic curved signing approach (ECDSA) and digital signatures. The proposed approach uses timestamp-based authentication with a digital signature protocol for validating voters and candidates during registration. The voting-based consensus ECDSA approach has been applied with the help of smart contracts to validate votes, adding blocks to the blockchain network thereby ensuring transparency in the voting process. Lastly, the performance of the proposed system is validated and compared with existing studies based on evaluation metrics such as response time (ms) and vote alteration (%). The results show that the proposed system attains the lowest response time (5.23 ms) and the lowest vote alteration rate (1.92%) thereby outperforming the existing works in the context of e-voting system.