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Towards Blockchain-Based E-Voting Systems

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Electronic voting is one of the most challenging cryptographic problems, since the developed system should guarantee strong and sometimes contrasting security properties. Blockchain technology can be of help providing for free some important guarantees such as the immutability and transparency of the votes using a distributed ledger. In this paper we propose a blockchain based e-voting system, which is lightweight, since it does not rely on strong cryptographic primitives, and efficient, since it improves over previous proposals in terms of both execution time and associated cost for the required infrastructure. We provide the description of a proof of concept system together with the cost and performance analysis.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Chiara Braghin, Stelvio Cimato, Simone Raimondi Cominesi, Ernesto Damiani & Lara Mauri

  2. EBTIC Laboratory, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus, PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Ernesto Damiani

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  1. Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland

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  2. University of Seville, Seville, Spain

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Braghin, C., Cimato, S., Cominesi, S.R., Damiani, E., Mauri, L. (2019). Towards Blockchain-Based E-Voting Systems. In: Abramowicz, W., Corchuelo, R. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 373. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36691-9_24

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