TY - GEN
T1 - DBE-voting: A Privacy-Preserving and Auditable Blockchain-Based E-Voting System
AU - Liu, Zhonghao
AU - Zhang, Xinwei
AU - Lao, Laphou
AU - Li, Guyue
AU - Xiao, Bin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - Blockchain technology can construct a distributed and trusted ledger, which can be used for electronic voting (E-voting) systems to ensure the security of voting data and improve government credibility. However, existing blockchain-based solutions cannot fully fulfill five core requirements in E-voting, i.e., auditability, privacy, authentication, correctness, and unreusability, which make them unpractical in the reality. In this paper, we propose a Double Blockchain-based E-voting (DBE-voting) system, which consists of a private blockchain and a public blockchain. In the proposed system, the voter information is only recorded in the private blockchain for further auditing and the voting results are recorded in both blockchains. The voter's privacy can be protected in the private blockchain while the voting results can be queried in the public blockchain for verifying the correctness of the election process. Moreover, the ballot recorded in both blockchains is signed with a valid linkable ring signature to ensure authentication and unreusability. We propose an on-chain and off-chain hybrid storage mechanism to ensure the consistency and correctness of voting data in two blockchains. Experimental results demonstrate that the throughput of our system can reach 29 transactions per second when the block size is 512 KB. The security analysis shows that the DBE-voting is the first blockchain-based system that can meet all five requirements simultaneously.
AB - Blockchain technology can construct a distributed and trusted ledger, which can be used for electronic voting (E-voting) systems to ensure the security of voting data and improve government credibility. However, existing blockchain-based solutions cannot fully fulfill five core requirements in E-voting, i.e., auditability, privacy, authentication, correctness, and unreusability, which make them unpractical in the reality. In this paper, we propose a Double Blockchain-based E-voting (DBE-voting) system, which consists of a private blockchain and a public blockchain. In the proposed system, the voter information is only recorded in the private blockchain for further auditing and the voting results are recorded in both blockchains. The voter's privacy can be protected in the private blockchain while the voting results can be queried in the public blockchain for verifying the correctness of the election process. Moreover, the ballot recorded in both blockchains is signed with a valid linkable ring signature to ensure authentication and unreusability. We propose an on-chain and off-chain hybrid storage mechanism to ensure the consistency and correctness of voting data in two blockchains. Experimental results demonstrate that the throughput of our system can reach 29 transactions per second when the block size is 512 KB. The security analysis shows that the DBE-voting is the first blockchain-based system that can meet all five requirements simultaneously.
KW - blockchain
KW - blockchain-based E-voting
KW - data consistency
KW - E-voting
KW - Hyperledger Fabric
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85178316217&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279692
DO - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279692
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85178316217
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 6571
EP - 6577
BT - ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
A2 - Zorzi, Michele
A2 - Tao, Meixia
A2 - Saad, Walid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023
Y2 - 28 May 2023 through 1 June 2023
ER -