Secure E-voting System using Symmetric Encryption

Abstract

Secure Voting System’ is heart of any democracy. There are number of nationwide voting system adopted all over the world, but each of them has their own shortfalls. The remote Internet voting systems still suffer many problems. These are some reasons that, manual voting is still in practice in many developing and developed nations in this internet era. Thus, complete, strongly secured and user friendly ‘E-Voting System’ is need of time. The aim of this thesis is to design a secure electronic voting system choosing AESalgorithm for encrypt and decrypt vote and chose MD5 algorithmto achieve integrity. The vote is encrypted and stored in the database, thus securing all the voting steps, and ensureconfidentiality, authentication, and privacy in electoraloperation.And also choosing UML(unified modeling language) for analytical purpose. Lastly, security analysis is done to show how the proposed model can resist know attacks.