Secure Online Voting System Proposed By Biometrics And Steganography

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Secure Online Voting System Proposed By Biometrics And

Steganography

Malwade Nikita

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, Patil Chetan

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, Chavan Suruchi

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, Prof. Raut S. Y

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BE Computer, P.R.E.C., Loni.

Abstract— Now days it is very important to provide security to any kind of data and it becomes more sensitive when we require this for voting system and mostly which is online one. In this paper we route a technique to provide security to an online voting system not only by Steganography concept but also combing Cryptography with this. Steganography and Cryptography is used together to provide security to user account. So for this images and keys get used in combination first time. Here for steagnography main object is image and for cryptography it is keys.

To reduce the risk factor of such system proper use of cryptography is needed. So it strongly minimizes risks in these systems. This is because the hacker needs to find not only the template but also the secret keys and it is not possible. Main idea behind this is to combined secret key with the cover image on the basis of key image. As a result such system produces a new image known as stego image. This kind of image is much more same as cover image. But human eyes are not able to detect such kind of image.

This system mainly provide a authentication scheme for online voting system .

Keywords— E-Voting, Steganography, Biometric.

I. INTRODUCTION

Elections enable every citizen of the country to participate in the process of government formation. The constitution of India provides for an election commission of India which is responsible for superintendence direction and control of all elections. Integrity of election process will determine the integrity of democracy itself. So the election system must be secure against a variety of fraudulent behaviors and should be transparent and comprehensible that voters can accept the result of an election.

The election must be-

1) Sufficiently robust to withstand a variety of fraudulent behaviors.

2) Scalability.

3) Speed and accuracy and Authentication.

Online voting system is a web based that facilities the running of elections and surveys online. This system has been developed to simplify the process of organizing elections and make it convenient for votes to vote remotely from their home computers while taking into consideration security, anonymity and providing auditioning capabilities. Users are individuals who interact with the system through web browsers.

Biometrics is the science that tries to fetch human biological features with an automated Machine either to authentication or identification. Biometric systems try to exchange Knowledge with an individual feature, e.g. finger print.

A. Necessity

Electronic voting machines use in India , punch card systems, Global Election Management System used in other countries have lack of indecisive or incorrect election results.

So, we have present Online Voting System with Biometric and Steganography, in order to avoid rigging and to enhance the accuracy and the speed of the process so that, one can cast his vote irrespective of his location. B. Advantages

1) Cost saving

2) Reduced administration

3) Create and deploy ballot quickly and with ease, integrity of the vote counting.

4) No need for renounces

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Fig.1 System Architecture

A. Working Flow of the System:-

Fig.2 System Flow

1) Every individual in the country is first register for voting. So, our first step is the registration. 2) At the time of registration each person give thumb

impression for the security purpose by using Digital Persona Hardware.

3) After doing this system provide to person a personal identification number(PIN) and secrete key is generated as shown in figure.

Fig.3 Secret Key Generation PIN

Secret Key

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key with thumb gives cover image as shown in fig.2. 5) After that stego image is generated by using cover

image as shown fig.2

Stego Image Fig.4 Stego Image Creation

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Stego Image Creation Algorithm

Fig. 5 Stego Image creation algorithm

6) The registered user login to the system for voting by entering PIN and secrete key with thumb impression. 7) After login at the server side stego image will be

decoded by using authentication algorithm as shown in fig.

Fig.6 Stego Image Decoding

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Authentication Algorithm

Fig. 7 Authentication Algorithm

8) Decoding the stego image details of the voter are find from the database at the server side.

9) If details are matched with the database stored then voter will be authenticated for voting and caste the vote.

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A. Client Side 1) Registration

2) Thumb Impression

3) Login

4) Voting

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3) Result

IV. PROBLEMS IN FINGER PRINT RECOGNIZATION 1. Handicapped people does not applicable for voting in

our system.

2. Hardware is required for taking thumb impression which is costly.

V. CONCLUSION

The focus of this paper is on use of techniques like

cryptography and Steganography for fingerprint

recognition also by using these techniques the highly secure voting system will be established. The security level of our system is greatly improved by the new idea of random cover image generation for each user.

By using the biometric and password security the authentication process of system is highly improved. Thus this strategy does not give any chance to steganalytic tools of searching for predictable set of modifications. Thus citizens can be sure that they alone can choose their leaders, thus exercising their right in the democracy.

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