An Ecient Agent e-Voting System with Distributed Trust
Aneta Zwierko, Zbigniew Kotulski · 2006
A new agent-based scheme for secure electronic voting is proposed in the paper. It is universal and can be realized in a network of stationary and mobile electronic devices. The proposed mechanism makes possible to implement a user interface simulating traditional election cards, semi-mechanical voting devices or utilize purely electronic voting booths. The security mechanisms applied in the system are based on the verified cryptographic primitives: the secure shared secret scheme and Merkle’s puzzles. Due to pre-computations at the stage of agents’ generation, the voter must do almost no computations. The proposed distributed trust architecture makes the crucial stage of sending votes elastic, reliable, and eective.