A New Electronic Voting System Based on Elliptic Curve in a Cloud Computing Environment

The process of democratization is developing and promoting due to electronic voting. However, the increase of frauds and the increasing amount of attacks launched by hackers, gave birth to privacy and authentication problems. Cryptography offers multiple solutions to overcome the sensitive data protection issues in e-voting. In this paper, we study the application of elliptic curve cryptography, and use the homomorphic encryption properties to present a new electronic voting system. Our new scheme is based on the homomorphic cryptosystem EC-ELGAMAL [7], and zero knowledge algorithm of Schnorr algorithm for identification and authentication.