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https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss-2025-0135

Fortifying E-Voting Systems: Integrating Visual Cryptography with ECC and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for Enhanced Security

Gaurav Thakur orcid.org/0009-0001-0657-9119 ; Central University of Jammu, India *
Pradeep Chouksey ; Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India
Mayank Chopra orcid.org/0000-0002-5241-8041 ; Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India
Parveen Sadotra orcid.org/0009-0004-8757-998X ; Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India

* Dopisni autor.

Sažetak

The growing reliance on digital technologies demands an urgent advancement of a secure framework for remote voting systems. This paper proposes a novel e-voting framework which is reinforced by a combination of visual cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption methods. Visual cryptography ensures the anonymity of voters, ECC provides a robust public key infrastructure and ChaCha20-Poly1305 provides authenticated encryption to ensure data integrity. The proposed approach eliminates some of the most vulnerable weaknesses in electronic voting systems, such as unauthorized access and manipulation, while ensuring transparency and verifiability. The complete proposed framework is thus feasible for practical application, as the results prove its effectiveness and efficiency in protecting remote voting procedures.

Ključne riječi

e-voting; visual cryptography; elliptic curve cryptography; chacha20-poly1305

Hrčak ID:

336755

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/336755

Datum izdavanja:

20.10.2025.

Posjeta: 522 *