BUILDING AND MAINTAINING TRUST IN INTERNET VOTING WITH

BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION

OBJECTIVE:

The main objective of this project is to provide a voting service that allows

people to vote electronically with biometrics authentication system.

PROBLEM DEFINITION:

Integrity of the election process will determine the integrity of democracy

itself. So the election system must be secure and robust against a variety of

fraudulent behaviors, should be transparent and comprehensible that voters and

candidates can accept the results of an election. 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: Anonymity, Tamper-resistant, Human factors.

ABSTRACT:

The project entitled as “Building and Maintaining Trust in Internet

Voting with Biometrics Authentication System”. To provide a voting service

that allows people to vote electronically. This system encompasses legal,

regulatory, behavioral, and sociological aspects of the current voting system, while

adding additional convenience and security to the overall voting process.

Biometrics is the study of automated methods for uniquely recognizing

humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. Physical

traits includes Fingerprint identification which is the process of comparing

questioned and known friction skin ridge impressions (Minutiae) from fingers,

palms, and toes to determine if the impressions are from the same finger. Using

Cryptography and Steganography at the same time, we try to provide Biometric as

well as Password security to voter accounts. The scheme uses images as cover

objects for Steganography and as keys for Cryptography. The key image is a

Biometric measure, such as a fingerprint image. Proper use of Cryptography

greatly reduces the risks in these systems as the hackers have to find both secret

key and the template. The basic idea is to merge the secret key with the cover

image on the basis of key image. The result of this process produces a STEGO

image which looks quite similar to the cover image but not detectable by human

eye. The system targets the authentication requirement of a voting system.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

In those days a rigorous study of fingerprints, developed scientific methods

for visual matching of fingerprints and strong programs/cultures for training

fingerprint experts, and applied the art of fingerprint identification for nailing

down the perpetrators. Despite the ingenious methods improvised to increase the

efficiency of the manual method of fingerprint indexing and search, the ever

growing demands on manual fingerprint identification quickly became

overwhelming the manual method of fingerprint indexing resulted in a highly

skewed distribution of fingerprints into bins most fingerprints fell into a few bins

and this resulted in search inefficiencies.

Fingerprint training procedures were time-intensive and slow. Further,

demands imposed by painstaking attention needed to visually match the

fingerprints of varied qualities, tedium of monotonic nature of the work, and

increasing workloads due to a higher demand on fingerprint identification services.

Integrity of the election process will determine the integrity of democracy itself. So

the election system must be secure and robust against a variety of fraudulent

behaviors, should be transparent and comprehensible that voters and candidates

can accept the results of an election. 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: Anonymity, Tamper-resistant, Human factors.

DISADVANTAGE:

Wastage of time.

There is a chance to do revote.

Less security.

Hacking voter results.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

To initiate research into acquiring fingerprints through electronic medium

and automatic fingerprint identification based on the biometric representation of

the fingerprints. These efforts have led to development of automatic fingerprint

identification systems over the past few decades. We attempt to present current

state-of-the-art in fingerprint sensing and identification technology.

The objective of this project is to present a high level overview of fingerprint

sensing and matching technology so as to provide the reader with some insights

into the strengths and limitations of the automation in matching fingerprints. To

initiate research into acquiring fingerprints through electronic medium and

automatic fingerprint identification based on the biometric digital representation

of the fingerprints.

ADVANTAGES:

Highly secured and there is no chance to revote.

Finger print recognition.

Real time tracking of results.

Ease of voting.

ALGORITHM USED:

1. RNG(Random Number Generation)

2. LSB(Least Significant Bit)

3. Triple DES(Data Encryption Standard)

ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM:

ADMIN

USER

Admin

LOGIN

New

Registration

SMS PIN

Number

entry

Thumb

impression

Providing

Secret key

USER Send

SMS PIN

and Secret

key

Thumb

impression

Generate

Stego Image

Get Details

from

Database

Authenticatio

n complete to

enter Vote

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Hardware configuration:

Intel Pentium IV

256/512 MB RAM

1 GB Free disk space or greater

1 GB on Boot Drive

1 Network Interface Card (NIC

Software configuration:

MS Windows XP/2000

MS IE Browser 6.0/later

MS Dot Net Framework 4.0

Internet Information Server (IIS)

MS SQL Server

Front End: ASP.NET with C#

Back End: MS SQL Server 2005

APPLICATIONS:

Powerful tool for democracy used for polling

Conduct censuses and referendums easily

Direct democracy

Saves Money