Development of a secure remote voting system and research on the characteristics of its anonymity

Abstract

Currently, the task of creating a reliable and anonymous remote voting system is relevant. Existing voting systems either do not fully meet the requirements of anonymity, or are closed from research. A scheme was developed for creating an anonymous remote voting system based on the blind electronic signature protocol and the algorithm for creating an anonymous channel. This paper describes possible threats and vulnerabilities of the protocols on which the scheme for constructing an anonymous voting system is based including the threat of a hacker’s sabotage sending his own or other people's ballots over a communication channel. The presented optimized version of the algorithm for creating anonymous remote voting system guarantees the impossibility of fake ballots or their reuse and also excludes possible attempts to sabotage the forwarding of ballots by voters. Formulas for calculating the optimal value of p the probability of sending a ballot directly to the server is defined. It is shown that the value of p must be calculated depending on the number of voters in order to achieve the maximum anonymity of the participants' votes.