The design of a secure anonymous Internet voting system

Computers and Security

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 330-337

  Chen, Yu Yi ^a   Jan, Jinn Ke ^b   Chen, Chin Ling ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blind signature; Certificate authority; Electronic voting; Proxy server; RSA; Secret sharing

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BLIND SIGNATURES; CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY; ELECTRONIC VOTING; PROXY SERVERS; SECRET SHARING; SECURE SOCKET LAYER (SSL);

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 2942562847     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2004.01.015     Document Type: Article

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