Secure And Transparent E-Voting System Using Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Differential Privacy, And Email-Based Voter Authentication
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Electronic Voting, Blockchain, E-Voting System, Smart Contracts, Differential Privacy, Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), Decentralized Identity, Privacy Preservation, Secure Voting, Verifiable Credentials, Distributed Ledger Technology, Transparency, Remote Voting, Cybersecurity, Digital DemocracyAbstract
Election is the key process typically utilized for maintaining democracy in a given society. Recent technological advancements, such as Blockchain (BC), have been already deployed in previous works to realize non-conventional e-Voting systems. The main goal for such proposals is to provide the necessary level of security and reliability, while maintaining transparency, trust, and remote elections. However, the distributed and publicity nature of BC brought new challenges related to privacy and performance trade-off. This paper aims to address existing privacy and performance issues in e-voting by integrating smart contracts for reliability and transparency, Differential Privacy to enhance vote anonymity, and Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) for managing decentralized identity and verifiable credentials.
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