Introduction To Secure Electronic Voting Requirements

Abstract

Voting takes great part in the human society. The act of choosing a representative in a vote-like process has always been a delicate and fragile. Electronic voting is being introduced not so long ago [12]. We can see the progress of evoting just by looking the goals that researchers set their selves [1, 3, 7, 21, 22]. Accomplishment of these goals went in two directions: using blind signatures [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 24], or using homomorphic crypto-system [6, 9, 10, 20, 26]. The notion of mixnets is also intertwining with e-voting systems to ensure an anonymous communication channel. This research will try to unite these concepts and to review the various techniques brought by researchers in the past 20 years or so.