• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.394-402
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• 2021

Electronic voting systems have been widely used in many countries around the world since the mid-1990s. In recent years, studies have applied blockchain to existing electronic voting systems in order to provide reliability, fairness, and transparency for voters. This approach is highly useful as a technology that promotes decentralized citizen participation. However, the existing electronic voting systems using blockchain have not sufficiently considered anonymity. Lack of anonymity acts as an important constraint in cases of small- and medium-sized voting, which is often required in decentralized citizen participation. In this study, we propose a model that provides anonymity to a voting system using blockchain by applying the concept of the master node in Dash cryptocurrency. First, we define the differences in the requirements of the transfer and voting systems in blockchain. We propose a parallel and autonomous model and algorithm to provide anonymity in the blockchain-that is, a decentralized development environment. In addition, a discussion of security and the environment for the proposed model is described.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.543-551
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• 1997

Many areas of human activities are computerized with the wide spread use of computers and communication networks.Electrinic voting is an important social activity in democtatic society.The realization of electronic democracy is based on the sectrity of edectronic voting scheme.Therefore, it is necessary to use the cryto-graphic technique for secure electronic voting scheme.Therefore, it is necessary to use the cryto-graghic technique for secure election.In this stusy, an dedctronic voting scheme sutiable for large election is proposed.In order to make practi-cal volting scheme, we assume that the voting authorization center is trustful and the chaum's anonymous com-munication channel[6] prepared before the election day.The center authorizes the ballot of eligible voter by using the ID based digital signature scheme in the registeation stage.During the voting stage, undeniable chal-lenge/ response prorocol is performed between the center and the boters to ensure that the intemediate voting results should not affect the entire.The proprsed scheme fully conforms to the requirments of large scale election such as privacy of the voters, fairness, unresuability, unforgeability and eligbility.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1-16
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• 2019

Blockchain technology prevents tampering of central authorities that manage voting process, enhancing trust in the vote results. This technology enables citizens to participate more directly in the areas where delegation was inevitable due to the difficulties in polling fair and trustworthy public opinions. There are many projects around the world proposing to implement voting system for public decision making using blockchain technology. The blockchain voting system is expected to work as a transparent and fair channel for polling public opinions, which will transform the public decision-making process and governance. Korean National Pension Service (NPS) recently introduced stewardship code to better represent the interest of beneficiaries. However, because of the mistrust in governance of NPS, introduction of stewardship code is facing criticism for potential misuse of their voting rights against the interest of beneficiaries and for government's interference with corporate management. This study proposes a voting system applying blockchain technology for polling the opinions of National Pension Fund's beneficiaries to support public decision-making, and discusses social and institutional conditions for implementation of the proposed system.

• TTA Journal
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• s.174
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• pp.58-59
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• 2017

지금 세계는 블록체인 기술을 이용한 전자투표에 관심이 높다. '블록체인'은 4차 산업혁명의 핵심 보안기술로, '알고리즘을 어떻게 설계하느냐'에 따라 가상화폐는 물론 선거 같은 사회 시스템에도 폭넓게 적용할 수 있다. 대체 블록체인이 무엇이기메 이처럼 여러 방면에 쓰이는 걸까?

• Information Systems Review
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.47-65
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• 2023

In this paper, we investigate how the online voting system can be a trust-based system from a technical perspective. Under four principles of voting, we finely evaluate the existing belief that offline voting is safer and more reliable than online voting based on procedural processes, technical principles. Many studies have suggested the ideas for implementing online voting system, but they have not attempted to strictly examine the technologies of online voting system from the perspective of voting requirements, and usually verification has been insufficient in terms of practical acceptance. Therefore, this study aims to analyze how the technologies are utilized to meet the demanding requirements of voting based on the technologies proven in the field. In addition to general data encryption, online voting requires more technologies for preventing data manipulation and verifying voting results. Moreover, high degree of confidentiality is required because voting data should not be exposed not only to outsiders but also to managers or the system itself. To this end, the security techniques such as Blind Signature, Bit Delegation and Key Division are used. In the case of blockchain-based voting, Mixnet and Zero-Knowledge Proof are required to ensure anonymity. In this study, the current status of the online voting system is analyzed based on the field system that actually serves. This study will enhance our understanding on online voting security technologies and contribute to build a more trust-based voting mechanism.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2000

본 연구는 전자선거 프로토콜의 요구사항을 규정해 보고, 컴퓨터 통신상에서 이를 충족시키기 위한 암호기법 들을 분석해 본다. 전자선거의 도입이 선거 비용을 절감시키고 투표 장소의 제약을 획기적으로 개선하지만 매표방지등의 문제로 아직은 완전한 이동성을 제공하지는 못한다. 그리고 투표결과의 정확성 검증과 매표방지는 서로 상충되는 요구사항이기도 하다. 실제선거에서는 효율성의 문제로 영지식증명기법등의 사용이 제약 받을 수도 있다. 이러한 문제들을 정리하고, 실제의 선거 절차와 선거 속성들이 전자선거 프로토콜로 어떻게 구현되었는지 비교 검토함으로써, 규정한 요구사항들의 선택적인 적용에 활용코자 한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.392-400
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an electronic election protocol based on VIOT protocol which utilizes public key cryptographic system and blind signature method to meet the seccurity requirement in election systems. Our proposed electronic election protocol provide voter's privacy and non-repudiation functionality which detect any misdemeanors of voters or relevant personnels.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2002

공정하고 투명한 선거를 이루기 위해서는 비밀성(privacy), 선거권(eligibiligy) 등과 더불어 전체검증(universally verifiability)과 매표방지(receipt-freeness) 속성이 반드시 제공되어야 한다. 그러나 전체검증은 누구나 투표내용을 확인할 수 있는 방법을 제공하는 것이고 매표방지는 투표내용과 투표자를 연결할 수 있는 방법을 차단하는 것으로 두가지 특성은 상호표리적 관계에 있어서 두가지 특성을 동시에 만족시키기가 어렵다. 이 논문에서는 신뢰할 수 있는 제3자인 정직한 랜덤마이저(Honest Randomizer, HR)와 최소한의 물리적 가정인 HR에서 유권자로 가는 도청 불가능한 채널(untappable channel)을 이용하여 전체검증과 매표방지를 제공하는 효율적인 전자선거 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.9-19
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• 2021

Electronic voting has been recognized as an alternative to complement the limitations of existing paper voting. At the same time, security concerns are being raised. This paper presents a blockchain-based electronic voting and survey system that can guarantee reliability. Our smart contract was created using Solidity on Ethereum which is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform, and the system was implemented in connection with the Javascript based user interface. In addition, in order to protect the personal information of participants, the system is generating hash of the personal data and storing the hash of users for the contract data. Since we exploited different kinds of languages for the system, we derived items of functionality testing and presented the functionality testing result. Moreover, we made use of the Chrome's performance evaluation functionality to see the response time of the blockchain-based system. In addition, we compared the performance with the system which has the same functionality on database. The contribution of this research is design and implementation of blockchain-based electronic voting system and presentation of the functionality and performance simulation result.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.43-47
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• 2012