The design of a secure anonymous Internet voting system

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a very practical and secure anonymous Internet voting protocol. Our scheme does not require a special voting channel and communications can occur entirely over the current Internet. This method integrates Internet convenience and cryptology. Issues such as the kinds of "certificate authority" and "public proxy server" are integrated in our scheme to solve the Internet identification and anonymity problems. This protocol combines the RSA blind signature scheme and secret sharing cryptosystem, to provide a fair and practical election. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.