METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ELECTRONIC VOTING OVER HIGH-SECURITY NETWORK, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR ENABLING ELECTRONIC VOTING OVER HIGH-SECURITY NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely distribute responsibilities among a plurality of management servers in order to prevent an illegal attempt from hampering the confidentiality and the integrity of voting, in a method and a system for enabling electronic voting over a high-security network.

SOLUTION: An authentication certificate CA is calculated by a management server SA and transmitted to a voting terminal Te, an electronic voting paper EB and an anonymous reference code AREu selected by a voter Eu are transmitted from the voting terminal to a voting count server SCV, and upon the verification of the anonymous reference by using a true value, electronic voting paper and the electronic voting of the voter are validated, the electronic voting paper is counted according to a surface value of the electronic voting paper, the confirmation of receipt is transmitted from the voting count server to the voting terminal. Eligible voter list documents SDVR signed by authentication certificates are calculated by the voting terminal and transmitted to the management server. The management server closes the voting action of the voter when the signed eligible voter list documents are verified by using a true value.

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