Electronic Voting Protocol Using Identity-Based Cryptography

Electronic voting protocols proposed to date meet their properties based on Public Key Cryptography (PKC), which offers high flexibility through key agreement protocols and authentication mechanisms. However, when PKC is used, it is necessary to implement Certification Authority (CA) to provide cert...

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Main Authors: Gina Gallegos-Garcia, Horacio Tapia-Recillas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/741031
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description Electronic voting protocols proposed to date meet their properties based on Public Key Cryptography (PKC), which offers high flexibility through key agreement protocols and authentication mechanisms. However, when PKC is used, it is necessary to implement Certification Authority (CA) to provide certificates which bind public keys to entities and enable verification of such public key bindings. Consequently, the components of the protocol increase notably. An alternative is to use Identity-Based Encryption (IBE). With this kind of cryptography, it is possible to have all the benefits offered by PKC, without neither the need of certificates nor all the core components of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Considering the aforementioned, in this paper we propose an electronic voting protocol, which meets the privacy and robustness properties by using bilinear maps.
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spelling doaj-art-c46ec588e74644d9b9dcb9cc6b5f1fbe2025-02-03T01:31:46ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2015-01-01201510.1155/2015/741031741031Electronic Voting Protocol Using Identity-Based CryptographyGina Gallegos-Garcia0Horacio Tapia-Recillas1Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Avenida Santa Ana 1000, San Francisco, Culhuacan, Coyoacan, 04430 México City, DF, MexicoDepartamento de Matematicas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, San Rafael Atlixco 186, Vicentina, Iztapalapa, 09340 México City, DF, MexicoElectronic voting protocols proposed to date meet their properties based on Public Key Cryptography (PKC), which offers high flexibility through key agreement protocols and authentication mechanisms. However, when PKC is used, it is necessary to implement Certification Authority (CA) to provide certificates which bind public keys to entities and enable verification of such public key bindings. Consequently, the components of the protocol increase notably. An alternative is to use Identity-Based Encryption (IBE). With this kind of cryptography, it is possible to have all the benefits offered by PKC, without neither the need of certificates nor all the core components of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Considering the aforementioned, in this paper we propose an electronic voting protocol, which meets the privacy and robustness properties by using bilinear maps.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/741031
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