bondito

Hi Everyone, i am a final year computer science student.I was thinking of building a secure online voting system for my university's student union elections process. I wondering if anyone has an idea on how i can go about implementing the system.I would really appreciate any help you give to me.Thanks

groovicus

A log in page, a voting page, and a servlet to store answers and voterID's... umm.. a backend to tally the votes..

Do you need more than that?

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Ghost

That is basically it.

titaniumdecoy

If you're a final year comp sci student, shouldn't you have an idea of how to do this yourself? No offense, although you could at least be more specific about the kind of help you're looking for.

Arevos

Well, you could go further and use encryption and public key signing to ensure security and accountability. Each voter would be issued a public key, which they could use to sign their vote - though ensuring a secure online election process is a can of worms. Perhaps publish a SHA1 hash of a public key in the student newspaper, which people could then use to verify that no man-in-the-middle attacks were taking places and...

But perhaps I'm overthinking it - You seem to want something simple?

Ghost

Use a forum poll! or phpPoll (I think I made that up, but the PHP names are never too creative, so it could be real)

Arevos

He said he wanted a secure online voting system :p

Ghost

Ohhhhhh, make them give you a valid SS# and credit card number and a good billing address with their full name and such...

Arevos

Well, yes... Encryption's a priority too, unless you're taking that bit for granted.

Ghost

Meh, encryption shim-miption who does that really?