“Using the Image as Code Book in Electronic Voting”

Abstract

An ideal voting technology would have four attributes: anonymity, scalability, speed, and integrity. Electronic voting is getting more important and practical due to the progress of computer and internet. In conducting elections, a secured voting system plays a vital role to protect against threats to the integrity of elections. In this paper, we provided a mutual authentication and secured key exchange method by using a onetime code book extracted from the image of the votes. Blind signatures by the election committee and by the voters are embedded in the images according to RSA and MD5 algorithms. Experimental results show the efficiency and the robustness of it. © 2011, The Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan. All rights reserved.