Agent-Based Offline Electronic Voting

Many electronic voting systems, classified mainly as homomorphic cryptography based, mix-net based and blind signature based, appear in the eighties after zero knowledge proofs were introduced. The common ground for all these three systems is the fact that none of them works without real time cryptologic computations which should be held on a server. As far as known, the agent-based approach has not yet been used in a secure electronic voting system. In this study, an agent-based electronic voting schema, which does not force real time computations on the server side and lets people vote at home, is proposed. Conventional cryptologic methods are used in the proposed schema to ensure some of the requirements of an electronic voting system where some of the requirements are constructed within distributed agent phenomena