Secure Online Voting System using Visual Cryptography

Meher Gayatri Devi  TIWARI; Anil Kumar  KAKELLI

doi:10.48048/wjst.2021.8972

Authors

Meher Gayatri Devi TIWARI School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-2577
Anil Kumar KAKELLI School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48048/wjst.2021.8972

Keywords:

Visual Cryptography, E-voting, Security, Techniques, Performance

Abstract

The development of a secure online voting system using visual cryptography is highly essential for present voting systems. Based on the current requirements and design aspects of an existing online voting system, emerging technologies are required in online voting schemes, and these are examined in this work. The emerging cryptographic techniques which are suitable for secure online voting systems are analyzed. Techniques like password hashed-based schemes, visual cryptography, and threshold decryption cryptosystem are highlighted for secure online voting systems. Visual cryptography (VC) is a technique where visual information can be encrypted on the user side, with the information decrypted on the admin side, which can be helpful in allowing participation in voting systems securely and ensuring fast vote counting and monitoring of the voting process to achieve high accuracy while being scam-free. The proposed secure online voting system using visual cryptography is efficiently developed using Python and achieves better performance on minimum software and hardware configuration systems.

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