An efficient mobile voting system security scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography

NSS 2009 - Network and System Security

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 474-479

  Ahmad, Tohari ^a   Hu, Jiankun ^b   Han, Song ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptography; ECC; Mobile voting; Security

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHIC SCHEMES; E-VOTING; ECC; ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS; ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY; HOMOMORPHIC-ENCRYPTIONS; KEY SIZES; ON-BOARD RESOURCES; SECURITY STRENGTHS; SYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION; VOTING SCHEMES; VOTING SECURITY; VOTING SYSTEMS;

MOBILE DEVICES; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; VOTING MACHINES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 72849117130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSS.2009.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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