Visual Semagram: An Enhanced Technique for Confidentiality Requirement of Electronic Voting System

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Adewale Olumide S. 1,* Boyinbode Olutayo K. 2 Salako E. Adekunle 1

1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

2. Department of Information Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2020.04.05

Received: 4 Mar. 2020 / Revised: 14 Mar. 2020 / Accepted: 16 Mar. 2020 / Published: 8 Aug. 2020

Index Terms

Visual Semagram, Technique, Achieving, Confidentiality, Electronic Voting

Abstract

One of the rights of citizens in any democratic society is to freely elect a particular candidate into a specific office for governance. This implies that among the candidates participating in an election, one of them would emerge as a winner based on the specified rules and regulation. The recent reports on the election in different parts of the world revealed that the corrupt politicians and corrupt election officers did manipulate the sensitive results thereby leading to undesired candidate emerge as a winner. This implies that election results had not been adequately secured against an attack such as alteration for false results. This paper reviewed scholarly published work and presented a novel technique using visual semagram to satisfy the confidentiality requirement of the electronic voting system. The mathematical equations on how the three primary additive colours (Red, Green and Blue) could be used to modify and conceal the election results against suspicion and alteration were presented. The significance of this paper included the presentation of a technique that would conceal any sensitive message from attackers’ suspicion and scholarly piece of information for further investigation in handling insecurity issues. The future work would involve the implementation and evaluation of the proposed technique to achieve the confidentiality requirement of the e-voting system, and to establish the validity and reliability of proposed technique.

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Adewale Olumide S., Boyinbode Olutayo K., Salako E. Adekunle, "Visual Semagram: An Enhanced Technique for Confidentiality Requirement of Electronic Voting System", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), Vol.12, No.4, pp.51-59, 2020. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2020.04.05

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