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Recent efforts by governments towards using the Internet have attracted many people to the concept of digital democracy. Many entities study the feasibility of using the Internet to conduct elections. However user confidence is required in order to establish new electronic voting protocols. Many proposals of voting systems have been put forward, in spite of this, the suggested systems haven’t had a big impact. In this paper, we are going to increase the security of a well-known voting scheme by paying attention to the role of the Trusted Third Parties involved in the system and the services they provide. We introduce a methodology that consists in classifying each service as verifiable or non-verifiable. Then we modify the proposed protocols in order to classify all the security services as verifiable. This produces a user protection profile which allows users to easily trust in a Trusted Third Party. The paper shows how a potential weakness in an existing voting system can be removed, thereby improving the security of the system. Thus, the system is more robust and this may be a step towards making voting systems more widely used.
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Puigserver, M.M., Gomila, J.L.F., Rotger, L.H.i. (2004). A Voting System with Trusted Verifiable Services. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3043. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24707-4_105
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