Secure Internet Voting Protocol (SIVP): A secure option for electoral processes

Abstract

Colombia government wants to implement electronic voting. However, the existing electronic voting protocols only include some of the required security features and Colombia needs a protocol with all these features to ensure fraud-free elections. In this paper, we present the design of SIVP (Secure Internet Voting Protocol), a new voting protocol for electoral processes, based on blind signatures and public key cryptography. This protocol has six phases and provides: eligibility, democracy, privacy, verifiability, accuracy, fairness, robustness, receipt-freeness and coercion-resistant. Also, we compare the number of cryptographic operations per phase of SIVP with other four protocols and conclude that the computational load of our protocol is not excessively high despite including more security features.

Keywords

• Applied cryptography
• Blind signature
• Electronic voting systems
• Information security
• Network protocols
• Public key cryptography