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Within a modern democratic nation, elections play a significant role in the nation's functioning. However, with the existing infrastructure for conducting elections using Electronic Voting Systems (EVMs), many loopholes exist, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arnab Mukherjee , Souvik Majumdar , Anup Kumar Kolya , Saborni Nandi

Elections seem simple---aren't they just counting? But they have a unique, challenging combination of security and privacy requirements. The stakes are high; the context is adversarial; the electorate needs to be convinced that the results…

The development of an electronic voting system that would replace traditional election procedures is a research topic of great interest for many years. Blockchain technology could provide some guarantees and fulfill strong requirements for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Achilleas Spanos , Ioanna Kantzavelou

Voting is a primary democratic activity through which voters select representatives or approve policies. Conventional paper ballot elections have several drawbacks that might compromise the fairness, effectiveness, and accessibility of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vikas Srivastava , Debasish Roy , Sihem Mesnager , Nibedita Kundu , Sumit Kumar Debnath , Sourav Mukhopadhyay

This paper presents a novel approach to the digital signing of electronic documents through the use of a camera-based interaction system, single-finger tracking for sign recognition, and multi commands executing hand gestures. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 P. Sarveswarasarma , T. Sathulakjan , V. J. V. Godfrey , Thanuja D. Ambegoda

We introduce a scheme for the membership verification, a scheme for a secret ballot, a scheme for the unanimity rule which can hide the number of voter using some partition number identities.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-17 BongJu Kim

This paper discusses several recent electronic-paper remote voting hybrid schemes, concentrating more specifically on the proposal put forward for Belgian elections. We point to some problems in the proposal, and consider addition of blind…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jan Willemson

Identity verification based on authenticity assessment of a handwritten signature is an important issue in biometrics. There are many effective methods for signature verification taking into account dynamics of a signing process. Methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Krzysztof Cpalka , Marcin Zalasinski , Leszek Rutkowski

Paper ballot voting with its fully-reviewable paper-trail is usually considered as more secure than their e-voting counterparts, given the large number of recent incidents. In this work, we explore the security of paper voting and show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 David M. Sommer , Moritz Schneider , Jannik Gut , Srdjan Capkun

Voter registration systems are a critical - and surprisingly understudied - element of most high-stakes elections. Despite a history of targeting by adversaries, relatively little academic work has been done to increase visibility into how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Andrés Fábrega , Jack Cable , Michael A. Specter , Sunoo Park

Biometric authentication is one of the promising alternatives to standard password-based authentication offering better usability and security. In this work, we revisit the biometric authentication based on "fuzzy signatures" introduced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Shuichi Katsumata , Takahiro Matsuda , Wataru Nakamura , Kazuma Ohara , Kenta Takahashi

Current methods of voter identification, especially in India, are highly primitive and error-prone, depending on verification by (mostly) sight, by highly trusted election officials. This paper attempts to provide a trustless and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Arunava Gantait , Rajit Goyal , Syed Sajid Husain Rizvi , Zaira Haram

We examine a natural but improper implementation of RSA signature verification deployed on the widely used Diebold Touch Screen and Optical Scan voting machines. In the implemented scheme, the verifier fails to examine a large number of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ryan W. Gardner , Tadayoshi Kohno , Alec Yasinsac

Since 2004, different research was handling the challenges in the centralized voting systems, e-voting protocols and recently the decentralized voting. So electronic voting puts forward some difficulties regarding the voter anonymity, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Nazim Faour

We present a system for running auditable and verifiable elections in untrusted environments. Votes are anonymous since the order of candidates on a ballot sheet is random. Tellers see only the position of the candidate. Voters can check…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Kirill A. Korinsky

Secure E-voting is a challenging protocol. Several approaches based on homomorphic crypto systems, mix-nets blind signatures are proposed in the literature .But most of them need complicated homomorphic encryption which involves complicated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-18 V P Binu , Divya G Nair , A Sreekumar

Signature verification is an authentication technique that considers handwritten signature as a biometric. From a biometric perspective this project made use of automatic means through an integration of intelligent algorithms to perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-30 Rozita Teymourzadeh , Martin kizito , Kok Wai Chan , Mok Vee Hoong

Attestation of documents like legal papers, professional qualifications, medical records, and commercial documents is crucial in global transactions, ensuring their authenticity, integrity, and trustworthiness. Companies expanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Swapna Krishnakumar Radha , Andrey Kuehlkamp , Jarek Nabrzyski

Perpetual voting addresses fairness in sequential collective decision-making by evaluating representational equity over time. However, existing perpetual voting rules rely on full participation and complete approval information, assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Apurva Shah , Axel Abels , Ann Nowé , Tom Lenaerts

A method for offline signature verification is presented in this paper. It is based on the segmentation of the signature skeleton (through standard image skeletonization) into unambiguous sequences of points, or unambiguously connected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Jugurta Montalvão , Luiz Miranda , Jânio Canuto