EtherVote: a secure smart contract-based e-voting system

IF 2.1 4区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Wireless Networks Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1007/s11276-024-03818-x

Achilleas Spanos, Ioanna Kantzavelou

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Conventional electing procedures cannot fulfill advanced requirements in modern times. Secure electronic voting systems have been a concern of many researchers for years to replace traditional practices. Decentralized approaches, such as Blockchain technology, are essential to provide compulsory guarantees for secure voting platforms, that hold the properties of transparency, immutability, and confidentiality. This paper presents EtherVote, a secure decentralized electronic voting system, which is based on the Ethereum Blockchain network. The EtherVote is a serverless e-voting model, relying solely on Ethereum and smart contracts, that does not include a database, and thus it enhances security and privacy. The model incorporates an effective method for voter registration and identification to strengthen security. The main properties of EtherVote include encrypted votes, efficiency in handling elections with numerous participants, and simplicity. The system is tested and evaluated, vulnerabilities and possible attacks are exposed through a security analysis, and anonymity, integrity, and unlinkability are retained.

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EtherVote：基于智能合约的安全电子投票系统

传统的选举程序无法满足现代的先进要求。多年来，安全电子投票系统一直是许多研究人员关注的问题，以取代传统做法。去中心化方法，如区块链技术，是为安全投票平台提供强制性保证的必要条件，它具有透明性、不变性和保密性等特性。本文介绍了基于以太坊区块链网络的安全去中心化电子投票系统 EtherVote。EtherVote 是一种无服务器电子投票模型，完全依赖于以太坊和智能合约，不包含数据库，因此增强了安全性和隐私性。该模式结合了有效的选民登记和身份识别方法，以加强安全性。EtherVote 的主要特性包括加密投票、高效处理参与者众多的选举以及简单性。该系统经过测试和评估，通过安全分析暴露了漏洞和可能的攻击，并保留了匿名性、完整性和不可链接性。

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Wireless Networks 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

7.70

自引率

3.30%

发文量

314

审稿时长

5.5 months

期刊介绍： The wireless communication revolution is bringing fundamental changes to data networking, telecommunication, and is making integrated networks a reality. By freeing the user from the cord, personal communications networks, wireless LAN''s, mobile radio networks and cellular systems, harbor the promise of fully distributed mobile computing and communications, any time, anywhere. Focusing on the networking and user aspects of the field, Wireless Networks provides a global forum for archival value contributions documenting these fast growing areas of interest. The journal publishes refereed articles dealing with research, experience and management issues of wireless networks. Its aim is to allow the reader to benefit from experience, problems and solutions described.