Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology

Toma, Cristian; Popa, Marius; Boja, Catalin; Ciurea, Cristian; Doinea, Mihai

doi:10.3390/electronics11121895

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Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology

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Cristian Toma

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,

Marius Popa

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Catalin Boja

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Cristian Ciurea

and

Mihai Doinea

Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010552 Bucharest, Romania

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Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1895; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121895

Submission received: 1 February 2022 / Revised: 19 May 2022 / Accepted: 10 June 2022 / Published: 16 June 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning, IoT and Big Data for Sustainable Communities)

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The paper presents the construction of a proof-of-concept for a distributed and decentralized e-voting application in an IoT embedded device with the help of blockchain technology. A SoC board was used as an IoT embedded device for testing the PoC. This solution ensures complete voter anonymity and end-to-end security for all entities participating in the electronic voting process. The paper outlines the solution’s two layers. Implementation details are presented for the e-voting application, which was deployed inside of an IoT embedded device. The solution and presented protocols provide two major properties: privacy and verifiability. To ensure privacy, the proposed solution protects the secrecy of each electronic vote. As for implementing verifiability, the solution prevents a corrupt authority from faking in any way the process of counting the votes. Both properties are achieved in the presented solution e-VoteD-App.

Keywords: blockchain; e-VoteD-App; decentralized application; IoT—Internet of Things; cyber security; mobile-embedded; secure element

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Toma, C.; Popa, M.; Boja, C.; Ciurea, C.; Doinea, M. Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology. Electronics 2022, 11, 1895. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121895

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Toma C, Popa M, Boja C, Ciurea C, Doinea M. Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology. Electronics. 2022; 11(12):1895. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121895

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Toma, Cristian, Marius Popa, Catalin Boja, Cristian Ciurea, and Mihai Doinea. 2022. "Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology" Electronics 11, no. 12: 1895. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121895

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Toma, C., Popa, M., Boja, C., Ciurea, C., & Doinea, M. (2022). Secure and Anonymous Voting D-App with IoT Embedded Device Using Blockchain Technology. Electronics, 11(12), 1895. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121895

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