Remote Voting System Using Extended Visual Cryptography

Establishing trust is one of the most important human-human and human-computer interactions. Authentication can be done using something we know (for example, a password), something we have (for example, a mechanical key), or something we are (a living, breathing human). These may be combined to provide stronger authentication. In this paper, we discuss some of the issues associated with Internet-based remote voting and argue that visual cryptography offers a promising way to provide both satisfactory authentication and secret ballot guarantees.