Enhanced E-Voting Protocol Based on Public Key Cryptography

Abstract

This paper proposes an e-voting protocol to allow voting to be done from any location and still abide with the laws of security including identification, authentication, integrity, and anonymity.The proposed method relies on public key encryption that uses two pairs of certificates one for citizens containing private/public key pairs and the second for National Information Technology Center (NITC) that also contains private/public key pairs.NITC will be acting as a trusted certificate authority by to citizens and government. It is considered an objective and neutral unprejudiced party where no other governmental party has authority upon elections and is auditable by the independent election commission.