An authorization-based cryptographically secure mobile voting system

Abstract

Governments and the private sector keep pace with the innovations on mobile technologies. Most countries have developed e-Government portals for their citizens which also have mobile applications. They aim to provide public services in efficient and effective manners. While the governments are administering existing duties through an electronic platform they are also trying to transform the paper-based voting into a fertile electronic method. Recent advancements in mobilebased communication networks and cryptography have made it possible to consider mobile voting as a feasible alternative for conventional elections. Mobile voting has the flexibility of allowing citizens to participate in an election no matter where they physically are. Benefits of this alternative may include a reduced cost and increased participation speed flexibility and accuracy as well as improved accessibility for disabled people. According to Chung and Wu (2012) mobile voting schemes should all have anonymity eligibility fairness mobility uniqueness verifiability uncoercibility limited transparency and appropriate location freedom. While previously published papers in the field of mobile voting has been scrutinized in this work this paper itself proposes for a reliable secure authorization-based mobile voting system which will enable instantaneous vote submissions for not only the government elections but also for institutions and meetings which currently lack such a favorable arrangement. A mobile application was also developed to prove the system. Hybrid cryptosystem is used for data security and the data gets encrypted and decrypted via AES-256. Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman schema called Curve25519 (Bernstein 2006) is used for the key exchange mechanism for Curve25519 provides one of the fastest results. In addition to this biometric fingerprint-scanning technology is used. One of the most important features of the system is that after user enters to the system with his institutive credential if and when under pressure voter can use the fake trapdoor. The user sets both genuine and fake character-based password and geometric pattern password to vote. The network is protected by SSL and OpenSSL is used on certification phases. The application consists of a login certification activation listing election and a voting screen. An Authorization-Based Cryptographically Secure Mobile Voting System will be introduced in this paper. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.