Abstrait

OnVote ? Secured online voting

Priyanka Chordia,Pooja Chavan, Bhagyashri Patil, Rutuja Patil, Mrs. Priyanka More

Integrity of the election process directly determines the integrity of democracy itself. So the election system must be secure and robust against a variety of unauthorized behaviors. It should be transparent and comprehendible. But in history, there are examples of elections being manipulated in order to influence their outcome. In a voting system, whether electronic or using traditional paper ballots, the system should meet the following criteria: Obscurity, Tamper-resistant, Human factors. In this paper we are proposing an Online voting system using Cryptography and Steganography at the same time for providing high security for the voters. Here, we are trying to provide Biometric as well as password security to voter account. The system uses images for various purposes such as cover objects for Steganography and as keys for Cryptography. The fundamental idea is to generate a cover image which has the secret key merged into it. The image generated out of this process is a stego image which is the key image. The key image is a biometric means, such as an image of fingerprint. By using cryptography and steganography together it greatly reduces the risk of being hacked by the hackers as both secret key and the template are to be identified. Since the generated image looks similar to the cover image it becomes difficult to identify if any secret key is present in it. The system is built to provide authentication to the voting system.