Volume 11, Number 08, June 2021

Blockchain Decentralized Voting for Verified Users with a Focus on Anonymity

  Authors

Piotr Pospiech, Aleksander Marianski and Michal Kedziora, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

  Abstract

The paper presents decentralized voting scheme for verified users while maintaining their anonymity. A blockchain network was applied, which is a decentralized and distributed database based on the Peer-to-Peer architecture. During the implementation, the Ethereum network was used. Thanks to this, it is possible to code the terms of the contract required to perform the transaction. Ethereum and the use of smart contracts were also discussed in paper. The implementation uses the blind signature protocol by David Chaum and encryption with the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm. Presented in this paper scheme for blockchain decentralized voting for verified users with focus on anonymity is then fully implemented and identified potential issues are analysed and discussed.

  Keywords

Blockchain, e-voting, Ethereum.