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An improved FOO voting scheme using blockchain

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The traditional FOO e-voting protocols adopt centralized and non-transparent count center, which leads to distrust to the center and doubts the fairness and correctness of the vote. However, blockchain is the most innovative technology in the current era and promises to solve the trust problem in the system with one center. In this paper, an improved FOO e-voting protocol is proposed using blockchain, which tries to address the limitation or weakness in existing systems. The traditional trusted third party is replaced by smart contract; specifically, our scheme is deployed using hyperledger fabric. The implementation is enforced by the consensus mechanism, which ensures the security of the blockchain. Through the analysis, the proposed scheme is proved to satisfy the necessary requirements for an e-voting protocol; meantime the trust assumption is reduced significantly. Therefore, the proposed protocol is more versatile and practical.

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This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61662016,61702341) and Key projects of Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (2018JJD170004) and Innovation Project of GUET Graduate (2017YJCX49) and Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate (YCSW2017139.) and GUET Excellent Graduate Thesis Program (16YJPYSS14).

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Henyang Normal University, Henyang, 421002, China

    Yuanjian Zhou & Yining Liu

  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Trusted Software, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yining Liu

  3. College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing, 408100, China

    Chengshun Jiang

  4. College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, 518118, China

    Shulan Wang

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Zhou, Y., Liu, Y., Jiang, C. et al. An improved FOO voting scheme using blockchain. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 19, 303–310 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-019-00457-8

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