Secure E-Voting System using Blockchain Technology

Secure E-voting Using Homomorphic Technology

Voting is one of the most important activities in a democratic society. In a traditional voting environment voting process sometimes becomes quite inconvenient due to the reluctance of certain voters to visit a polling booth to cast votes besides involving huge social and human resources. The development of computer networks and elaboration of cryptographic techniques facilitate the implementat...

An E-voting Protocol Based on Blockchain

Because of the properties such as transparency, decentralization, irreversibility, nonrepudiation, etc., blockchain is not only a fundamental technology of great interest in its own right, but also has large potential when integrated into many other areas. In this paper, based on the blockchain technology, we propose a decentralized e-voting protocol, without the existence of a trusted third pa...

Secure Voting System Using Paillier Homomorphic Encryption

Using blockchain for enabling internet voting

Voting is an inherent process in a democratic society. Other methods for expressing the society participants’ will for example caucuses in US party elections or Landsgemeine in Switzerland can be inconvenient for the citizens and logistically difficult to organize. Furthermore, beyond inconvenience, there may be legitimate reasons for not being able to take part in the voting process, e.g. bein...

Reimagining KYC Using Blockchain Technology

The Know Your Customer (KYC) process is an integral part of client onboarding and requires banks to validate and verify primary documents. The market today, though, is flooded with KYC utilities that help manage these documents and share them with multiple entities, but they provide little value addition. Blockchain technology, with its concept of distributed, time-stamped ledgers, can effectiv...