Security, usability, and biometric authentication scheme for electronic voting using multiple keys

Masood Ahmad, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Nighat Ayub, Alshehri Md, Muazzam A Khan, Abdul Hameed and Halil Yetgin

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020, vol. 16, issue 7, 1550147720944025

Abstract: We propose electronic voting authentication scheme, which is a key management mechanism for electronic voting system intended to limit the number of attacks on a polling station and strengthen the security control. The motivation is to diversify security requirements of messages exchanged between polling stations. There are different types of messages exchanged between polling stations and each type of message has different security needs. A security mechanism developed on the basis of a single key is not enough to ensure the diverse security needs of voting network. In electronic voting authentication scheme, every polling station is responsible to support three different types of keys. These are global key, pairwise key, and individual key. The global keys are public keys shared with all polling stations in the voting network. The pairwise key can be used for communication with polling stations. Individual keys will be used for communication with the server. To ensure authentication of local broadcast, electronic voting authentication scheme uses one-way key chains in a well-organized way. The support of source authentication is a visible advantage of this scheme. We examine the authentication of electronic voting authentication scheme on numerous attack models. The measurement demonstrates that electronic voting authentication scheme is very operative in protecting against numerous elegant attacks such as wormhole attack, Sybil attack, and HELLO Flood attack. The proposed system is evaluated and the results demonstrate that the proposed system is practical and secure as compared to the direct recording electronic and manual systems.

Keywords: Electronic voting; security; authentication; attacks; key distribution; key management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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