Transitioning to a Javascript Voting Client for Remote Online Voting

Jordi Cucurull, Sandra Guasch, David Galindo

2016

Abstract

Voters in remote electronic voting systems typically cast their votes from their own devices, such as PCs and smartphones. The software executed at their devices in charge of performing the ballot presentation, navigation and most of the cryptographic operations required to protect the integrity and privacy of the ballot, is referred to as the voting client. The first voting clients were developed as Java Applets. However, the use of this technology has become relegated in front of web technologies such as Javascript, which provide a better multi-platform user experience. This is the reason why in 2013 Scytl decided it was imperative to develop a voting client purely based on Javascript. This industrial paper shows the implementation experiences and lessons learned during the development and deployment of Javascript voting clients for our remote electronic voting systems. The paper is complemented with a performance study of 1) the main cryptographic primitives used in voting clients and 2) the voting casting process of one of the voting clients used in a real election.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cucurull J., Guasch S. and Galindo D. (2016). Transitioning to a Javascript Voting Client for Remote Online Voting . In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-196-0, pages 121-132. DOI: 10.5220/0005967301210132

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt16,
author={Jordi Cucurull and Sandra Guasch and David Galindo},
title={Transitioning to a Javascript Voting Client for Remote Online Voting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={121-132},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005967301210132},
isbn={978-989-758-196-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)
TI - Transitioning to a Javascript Voting Client for Remote Online Voting
SN - 978-989-758-196-0
AU - Cucurull J.
AU - Guasch S.
AU - Galindo D.
PY - 2016
SP - 121
EP - 132
DO - 10.5220/0005967301210132