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A Hybrid Blockchain-Based E-Voting System with BaaS

BaaS를 이용한 하이브리드 블록체인 기반 전자투표 시스템

  • 강명조 (한경국립대학교 컴퓨터응용수학부) ;
  • 김미희 (한경국립대학교 컴퓨터응용수학부)
  • Received : 2023.01.27
  • Accepted : 2023.03.28
  • Published : 2023.08.31
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Abstract

E-voting is a concept that includes actions such as kiosk voting at a designated place and internet voting at an unspecified place, and has emerged to alleviate the problem of consuming a lot of resources and costs when conducting offline voting. Using E-voting has many advantages over existing voting systems, such as increased efficiency in voting and ballot counting, reduced costs, increased voting rate, and reduced errors. However, centralized E-voting has not received attention in public elections and voting on corporate agendas because the results of voting cannot be trusted due to concerns about data forgery and modulation and hacking by others. In order to solve this problem, recently, by designing an E-voting system using blockchain, research has been actively conducted to supplement concepts lacking in existing E-voting, such as increasing the reliability of voting information and securing transparency. In this paper, we proposed an electronic voting system that introduced hybrid blockchain that uses public and private blockchains in convergence. A hybrid blockchain can solve the problem of slow transaction processing speed, expensive fee by using a private blockchain, and can supplement for the lack of transparency and data integrity of transactions through a public blockchain. In addition, the proposed system is implemented as BaaS to ensure the ease of type conversion and scalability of blockchain and to provide powerful computing power. BaaS is an abbreviation of Blockchain as a Service, which is one of the cloud computing technologies and means a service that provides a blockchain platform ans software through the internet. In this paper, in order to evaluate the feasibility, the proposed system and domestic and foreign electronic voting-related studies are compared and analyzed in terms of blockchain type, anonymity, verification process, smart contract, performance, and scalability.

전자투표는 정해진 장소에서의 키오스크 투표, 정해지지 않은 장소에서의 인터넷 투표 등의 행위를 포함한 개념으로, 오프라인 투표 수행 시 많은 자원과 비용이 소모되는 문제를 완화하기 위해 등장했다. 전자투표를 사용하면 투표 및 개표 업무의 효율성 증대, 비용 감소, 투표율 상승, 오류 감소 등 기존 투표시스템에 비해 많은 이점을 가진다. 하지만 중앙집중식 전자투표는 타인에 의한 데이터 위·변조 및 해킹 우려로 투표 결과를 신뢰할 수 없어 공적 선거 및 기업 안건 투표에 주목받지 못했다. 이를 해결하기 위해 최근에는 블록체인 기술을 활용한 전자투표 시스템을 설계하여 투표정보의 신뢰성 증가, 투명성 확보 등 기존의 전자투표에서 부족한 개념을 보완하는 연구가 활발히 진행되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 퍼블릭 블록체인과 프라이빗 블록체인을 융합하여 사용하는 하이브리드 블록체인 기술을 도입한 전자투표 시스템을 제안하였다. 하이브리드 블록체 인은 프라이빗 블록체인을 이용해 느린 트랜잭션 처리 속도와 수수료 문제를 해결하고, 퍼블릭 블록체인을 통해 거래의 투명성과 데이터 무결성 부족 문제를 보완할 수 있다. 또한, 설계한 시스템을 BaaS로 구현하여 블록체인의 타입 변환 용이성 및 확장성을 확보하고 강력한 연산력을 제공할 수 있도록 한다. BaaS란, Blockchain as a Service의 약어로 클라우드 컴퓨팅 기술 중 하나이며 인터넷을 통해 블록체인 플랫폼 및 소프트웨어를 제공하는 서비스를 의미한다. 본 논문에서는 타당성을 평가하기 위해 제안시스템과 국내외에서 진행한 전자투표 관련 연구를 블록체인 타입, 익명성, 검증 프로세스, 스마트 계약, 성능, 확장성 측면에서 비교 분석한다.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2018년도 정부(과학기술정보통신부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(No.2018R1A2B6009620).

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