DABSTERS: Distributed Authorities using Blind Signature to Effect Robust Security in e-Voting

Marwa Chaieb, Mirko Koscina, Souheib Yousfi, Pascal Lafourcade, Riadh Robbana

2019

Abstract

Creating an online electronic voting system that meets all legal requirements of election organizers and voters has constituted a real challenge for a long period of time. Permissioned Blockchains (also called Private Blockchains) are a cutting-edge invention, introduced as a security breakthrough for many existing and emerging technologies. One potential application of private Blockchain concerns e-voting systems. We propose a fully-decentralized e-voting system based on permissioned Blockchain, called DABSTERS in e-voting. Our system uses a blinded signature consensus algorithm, which is a modified version of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), to preserve voter’s privacy. Our protocol ensures several security properties: voter’s eligibility, vote integrity, vote secrecy, fairness, receipt freeness, individual and universal verifiability.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chaieb M., Koscina M., Yousfi S., Lafourcade P. and Robbana R. (2019). DABSTERS: Distributed Authorities using Blind Signature to Effect Robust Security in e-Voting.In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 2: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-378-0, pages 228-235. DOI: 10.5220/0007917702280235

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt19,
author={Marwa Chaieb and Mirko Koscina and Souheib Yousfi and Pascal Lafourcade and Riadh Robbana},
title={DABSTERS: Distributed Authorities using Blind Signature to Effect Robust Security in e-Voting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 2: SECRYPT,},
year={2019},
pages={228-235},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007917702280235},
isbn={978-989-758-378-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 2: SECRYPT,
TI - DABSTERS: Distributed Authorities using Blind Signature to Effect Robust Security in e-Voting
SN - 978-989-758-378-0
AU - Chaieb M.
AU - Koscina M.
AU - Yousfi S.
AU - Lafourcade P.
AU - Robbana R.
PY - 2019
SP - 228
EP - 235
DO - 10.5220/0007917702280235