Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting

Robert Riemann, Stéphane Grumbach

2017

Abstract

While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We address the issue of trustworthy online voting protocols and recall therefore their security concepts with its trust assumptions. Inspired by the Bitcoin protocol, the prospects of distributed online voting protocols are analysed. No trusted authority is assumed to ensure ballot secrecy. Further, the integrity of the voting is enforced by all voters themselves and without a weakest link, the protocol becomes more robust. We introduce a taxonomy of notions of distribution in online voting protocols that we apply on selected online voting protocols. Accordingly, blockchain-based protocols seem to be promising for online voting due to their similarity with paper-based protocols.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Riemann R. and Grumbach S. (2017). Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-209-7, pages 499-505. DOI: 10.5220/0006228504990505

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp17,
author={Robert Riemann and Stéphane Grumbach},
title={Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2017},
pages={499-505},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006228504990505},
isbn={978-989-758-209-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Distributed Protocols at the Rescue for Trustworthy Online Voting
SN - 978-989-758-209-7
AU - Riemann R.
AU - Grumbach S.
PY - 2017
SP - 499
EP - 505
DO - 10.5220/0006228504990505