A Distributed Network Architecture for Robust Internet Voting Systems

fonte:http://www.springerlink.com/content/arlx4uk1m77ff1qe/fulltext.pdf?page=1
acesso:20-10-2009

Web-based Internet voting services cannot be provided in
a reliable manner where a publicly visible website forms the basis of
interacting with voters and collecting votes, as the service cannot resist
a distributed denial of service attack. The problem is a profound one for
all interactive web services, however, an Internet voting session is a well
defined and quite simple interaction and an interactive service similar to
web-based voting is proposed. This architecture uses a P2P web cache as
the source of a Java voting applet. The applet interacts with the voter
via their web browser to collect a vote. The applet then uses a common
P2P file sharing network to deposit encrypted votes for collection by the
electoral returning officer. The issues of how to authenticate voters and
how to provide receipting in such an asynchronous system are described
along with premininary findings using a large P2P network established
for this purpose. A successful demonstration of this approach may have
implications for other mission critical web services which must collect
information.