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Published in: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 5/2021

11-03-2021

AMVchain: authority management mechanism on blockchain-based voting systems

Authors: Chenchen Li, Jiang Xiao, Xiaohai Dai, Hai Jin

Published in: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications | Issue 5/2021

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Abstract

As blockchain technology booms, modern electronic voting system leverages blockchain as underlying storage model to make the voting process more transparent, and guarantee immutability of data. However, the transparent characteristic may disclose sensitive information of candidate for all system users have the same right to their information. Besides that, the pseudo-anonymity of blockchain will lead to the disclosure of voters’ privacy and the third-parties such as registration institutions involved in voting process also have possibility of tampering data. To overcome these difficulties, we apply authority management mechanism into blockchain-based voting systems. In this paper, we put forward AMVchain, a fully decentralized and efficient blockchain-based voting system. AMVchain has a three-layer access control architecture, and on each layer, smart contracts are responsible for validation and granting permissions. Linkable ring signature is adopted in the process of voting to protect ballot-privacy. AMVchain also makes a tradeoff between efficiency and concurrency by introducing proxy nodes. The experiments results show that our system meets the basic requirements under the high concurrent users circumstance.

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Metadata
Title
AMVchain: authority management mechanism on blockchain-based voting systems
Authors
Chenchen Li
Jiang Xiao
Xiaohai Dai
Hai Jin
Publication date
11-03-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications / Issue 5/2021
Print ISSN: 1936-6442
Electronic ISSN: 1936-6450
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-021-01100-x

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