KR20060074779A - Electronic voting service system and method using pki in home network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a user terminal capable of accessing a home network, a home network management server managing home network access authentication and subscriber information and services, an electronic voting system providing an electronic voting service, and an investor using the system. Open and register a voting event in the electronic voting system using the user terminal, thereby receiving a public key and a private key, and the investor establishes a connection to the electronic voting system through the home network management server. In the state, if the request for voting participation for the voting event is requested, the electronic voting system receives and manages the information about the voting subjects to participate in the voting event from the home network management server, and then the voting participation notification for the voting subjects. Home network management server by requesting network management server Notify each voting participant to participate in voting. Accordingly, when voting performance information is received from the voting user's user terminal, the voting establishment processes the counting process after encrypting and storing it with the public key provided to the investment creator in the electronic voting system. Upon request, the private key is received from the voting establisher and the stored encrypted voting performance information is decrypted and counted.

Electronic Voting, Home Network, PKI, Mobile Phone

Description

Electronic voting service system and method using PKI in home network

1 is a conceptual diagram of an electronic voting service method in a home network using a PKI according to the present invention.

2 is a data flow diagram illustrating a voting establishment process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of notifying a voter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process in which a voter electronically votes according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of counting voting results according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of providing an electronic voting service to a mobile phone user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an electronic voting service, and more particularly, to an electronic voting service system and a service method using a public key infrastructure (PKI) for a home network user.

With the development of communication technology, a ubiquitous user has been proposed to enable communication anytime and anywhere, and as such ubiquitous, a home network that provides various information in the home and enables communication is realized.

Digital home service through home network provides convenience service, safety service, moisture service, happiness service, public service, etc. In each category, remote control, remote meter reading, remote health consultation, video call, HDTV, VOD, location Services such as information are supported.

However, the electronic voting service for the home network has not been provided so far. Once ubiquitous becomes commonplace and connected to the home network in each premises, not only elections for all citizens, but also voting for city, county, ward, town, municipal, and municipal residents or women's presidents in the same apartment complex Voting events such as elections or cleaners' voting are required to be handled electronically using the home network.

The present invention has been proposed by the conventional necessity, and an object thereof is to enable a home network user to participate in a vote established by an institution or a specific person using a home network. In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic voting service for home network users with enhanced security aspects required for voting.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a user terminal for a user that can be connected to the home network; A home network management server for managing information on home network subscribers and various services for home network subscribers, performing authentication for home network users, and notifying a voter to participate in voting; And access authentication is performed under the control of the home network management server, and provides a voting service such as voting establishment, voting participation, and voting notice request to subscribers of the home network management server. Provides an electronic voting service system in a home network using a PK eye including an electronic voting system for encrypting the voting performance information participated in a voting event established by the voting establisher by decrypting the public key and decrypting the private key. .

In addition, the present invention for achieving the above object is a user terminal capable of access to the home network, home network access authentication and home network management server for managing subscriber information and services, and PK using an electronic voting system that provides an electronic voting service An electronic voting method in a home network using a child, comprising: a first step in which an investment creator opens and registers a voting event in the electronic voting system using the user terminal, and receives a public key and a private key accordingly; A second step of requesting a notification of participation in a voting event in a state where the investment creator has made access to the electronic voting system through the home network management server; The electronic voting system is a third step of receiving and managing information from the home network management server for the vote target to participate in the voting event; The electronic voting system is a fourth step of requesting the home network management server to notify the vote participation of the voting target; A fifth step of notifying the voting participation to each of the voting targets; The electronic voting system encrypts and stores the public key provided to the investment creator when the voting performance information is received from the user terminal of the voting party and stores the encrypted voting information; And the electronic voting system includes a seventh step of receiving the private key from the voting establisher and decrypting the stored encrypted voting performance information when the voting establisher requests the voting process. Access to the electronic voting system through a server provides an electronic voting service method in a home network using a PK eye, characterized in that the connection to the electronic voting system made after the user is authenticated by the home network management server.

The present invention also provides a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, the present invention will be briefly described with reference to FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of an electronic voting service method in a home network using a PKI according to the present invention.

The present invention is a voting establisher's Internet terminal 100 (hereinafter referred to as 'voting establisher'), home network management server 200, electronic voting system 300, and voter's Internet terminal 400 participating in the actual voting (Hereinafter referred to as "Votor").

The voting establisher's Internet terminal may be a mobile phone, a PDA, a computer, a home terminal for a home network, a two-way digital TV, a DMB terminal, or the like.

All electronic voting of the present invention is made at the request of the voting initiator 100.

The voting establisher 100 may be a constituent member, a mayor, a mayor, a ward, a class leader, or an apartment representative, and in some cases, may be a general public, but vote by the electronic voting system 300 or / and the home network management server 200. It is desirable to be certified for opening. In this case, the authentication for the voting establisher may be performed by installing the voting establishment authenticator restriction condition in the electronic voting system 300 or / and the home network management server 200. In the case of a voting event administered by a national organization, it is preferable that the voting initiator information for the voting event is temporarily set in the electronic voting system 300.

The home network management server 200 stores and / or manages information on home network subscribers, and manages various services (including electronic voting services) for home network subscribers. In particular, the home network management server 200 is responsible for authentication for the home network user. The home network management server 200 permits access to the electronic voting system 300 by performing initial use authentication for the voting establisher 100 to establish a voting event. Therefore, only the voting establisher 100 certified for use by the home network management server 200 can open a voting event targeting users managed by the home network management server 200. The home network management server 200 notifies the voters 400 to participate in the voting by notifying the voting information by SMS or e-mail.

The electronic voting system 300 is equipped with a voting process application for the electronic voting and an application to assist it, and generates a PKI-based private key and public key (certificate) to the voting creator 100 who opened the voting event. By providing the private key to the voting establisher 100, and provides the voter 400 with the service for the electronic voting process. The electronic voting system 300 communicates with the home network management server 200 to share each voter information managed by the home network management server 200.

As a result, the present invention is that when the voting establisher 100 authenticated by the home network management server 200 establishes a voting event using the electronic voting system 300, the home network management server 200 uses the electronic voting system ( At the request of 300, the voter 40 of the voting event is notified of the participation in the voting, and the voter 40 accesses the electronic voting system 300 through authentication by the home network management server 200 to vote. Conduct. When such a vote is made, the electronic voting system 300 encrypts the voting information through a certificate (public key) provided to the voting creator 100, and until the voting creator 100 decrypts the voting information through the private key. Manage the poll information without counting it.

Here, the electronic voting system 300 may set one or more voting establishers 100 for the same voting event, and encrypts the voting information of the voters set by each voting establisher 100 with the public key of each voting establisher 100. After that, it collects / manages and performs counting with the private key of each voting establisher 100.

Hereinafter, a process of establishing a voting event will be described with reference to FIG. 2. 2 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of establishing a voting event according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Voting establisher 100 to establish a voting event is connected to the home network management server 200 performs a user authentication (S201). When the home network management server 200 succeeds in authenticating the voting establisher 100, the home network management server 200 provides the voting establisher 100 with information on service items as a list (S202).

The voting establisher 100 checks the received information of the service item through the screen and selects the electronic voting service among the service items (S203). Then, the home network management server 200 transfers the service control for the voting establisher 100 to the electronic voting system 300 (S204), and thus the voting establisher 100 is connected to the electronic voting system 300 ( S205).

The electronic voting system 300 causes the security module program to be driven by the voting establisher 100 when the voting establisher 100 is connected and forms a secure channel with the voting establisher 100 (S206). Provide (not shown). The service items include items such as opening a voting event and voting participation.

The voter establishes a voter group by selecting the opening of a voting event among the received service items, inputting information indicating the nature of the voting event, guide information about the voting event, and conditions for the voter who is the target of the voting event. (S207).

When the voter group is registered in this way, an item for the corresponding voting event is stored in the electronic voting system 300 as voting event information of the voting establisher 100. The above conditions for voters may be, for example, an adult 20 years or older, an adult living in Gangnam-gu, 20 years of age or older, a target of a reserve army training trainee living in Seoul, or an adult man and woman 20 years old or older living in Yeoksam-dong Forsythia apartment in Gangnam-gu.

When the voting establisher 100 registers a voting event as described above, the electronic voting system 300 generates a public certificate and a private key including the public key (S208), and generates a private key corresponding to the generated public key. Provided to the vote establisher 100 (S209).

When the voting establisher 100 finishes the registration of such a voting event (S210), the electronic voting system 300 notifies the home network management server 200 of the termination of the connection to inform the end of the session (S211).

When the voting establisher 100 repeats the processes of S201 to S210, one or more voting events can be registered in the electronic voting system 300, and each registered voting event is stored in match with the voting establisher 100. When the voting establisher 100 requests a voting event registered by the voting establisher 100, the voting establisher 100 is provided to the voting establisher 100 as list information.

 At this time, the electronic voting system 300 preferably limits the establishment of registration according to the nature of the voting event to prevent anyone from opening the voting event.

On the other hand, the present invention may allow the voting establisher 100 to register the voting event by directly accessing the electronic voting system 300 without going through the home network management server 200. In this case, processes S201 to S204 are omitted in the above-described process.

Hereinafter, a method of notifying (ie, notifying) a voter of a registered voting event as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 3. 3 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of notifying a voter according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The voting creator 100 who registered the voting event in the electronic voting system 300 performs the process shown in FIG. 3 to notify the voters of the voting participation.

The voting establisher 100 first accesses the home network management server 200 to receive user authentication (S301), and then accesses the electronic voting system 300 according to the electronic voting service provided by the home network management server 200. (S302 to S305).

The electronic voting system 300 forms a secure channel when the voting establisher 100 accesses and provides a service item to the voting establisher 100, and the voting establisher 100 selects a voting notice item among the service items, and then votes. Inquiry about the voter condition registered at the event, that is, voter target (S306).

The electronic voting system 300 transmits the voter condition information registered in the corresponding voting event to the home network management server 200 according to the voter target inquiry request (S307). The home network management server 200 performs a search according to the received voter conditions and provides subscriber information, that is, voter target information corresponding to the voter conditions, to the electronic voting system 300 (S308).

The electronic voting system 300 transmits the received voter-targeted information to the voting establisher 100 to query the voting notice (S309), and upon receiving the voting notice request from the voting establisher 100 (S310), manages the home network. The server 200 requests vote notification by providing voter-targeted information (S311). Then, the home network management server 200 notifies each voter 400 to participate in the voting by sending an SMS or an email (S312).

Hereinafter, a method of participating in voting according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4. 4 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process for voters electronic voting according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The voter 400 notified of the participation in the voting by SMS or e-mail accesses the home network management server 200 on the voting day of the corresponding voting event, receives user authentication (S401), and provides the electronic voting (participation) service among the provided service items. (S402, S403). Then, the home network management server 200 transfers the service control to the electronic voting system and connects the voter 400 to the electronic voting system 300 (S404).

When the voter 400 connects, the electronic voting system 300 provides the voter 400 with the default service item, and the voter 400 checks the list of the service item and selects a voting item. Then, the electronic voting system 300 reads information of voting events registered as voters from its own memory (or a database) and provides the list to the voter 400 as list information (S405). The voter 400 checks the received vote list information (S406), and selects a vote event (i.e., a voting target) to which he / she wants to vote (S407).

When the voter 400 selects the voting event, the electronic voting system 300 provides the voter 400 with information about the voting event, and the voter 400 checks the voting event information and then performs the voting. (S408).

When the voting performance information is received from the voter 400, the electronic voting system 300 encrypts the voting performance information with the public key according to the certificate matched with the corresponding voting event (S409) and stores it in a separate memory (S410).

Hereinafter, a counting process according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 5. 5 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of counting voting results according to an embodiment of the present invention.

After the voting period has passed, the voting establisher 100 connects to the home network management server 200 and receives user authentication in order to count the voting performance information of each voter stored in the electronic voting system 300 (S501). The electronic voting service is selected from among the electronic voting system 300 to be connected (S502 to S504).

The electronic voting system 300 provides a default service item when the voting establisher 100 connects (S505), and the voting establisher 100 selects a ballot processing item among the service items (S506). Then, the electronic voting system 300 provides the information of the voting event registered by the voting establisher 100 as list information (S507), and the voting establisher 100 selects a corresponding voting event item from the voting list information (S508), The private key stored for counting the corresponding voting event is provided to the electronic voting system 300 (S509).

When the electronic voting system 300 receives the information of the specific voting event to be counted from the voting creator 100 and the private key, the voter for each voter who reads and reads the voting performance information for the specific voting event from the information stored in its own memory Each of the performance information is decrypted with a private key (S510), and the counting count is processed (S511). When the ballot counting process is made, the electronic voting system 300 provides the ballot counting result 100 to the ballot establisher 100 (S512).

Hereinafter, a method in which a voter participates in an electronic vote using a mobile phone according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6. 6 is a data flow diagram illustrating a process of providing an electronic voting service to a mobile phone user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The home network management server 200 notifies the voters of the participation in voting at the request of the voting establisher 100. At this time, if the stored subscriber receiver information is designated as the voter's mobile phone, the home network management server 200 notifies the voter's participation in the voter's mobile phone (S601). ).

The cell phone of the voter displays a message indicating the participation in voting on the screen, and the voter checks this and accesses the home network management server 200 on the voting day (S602), authenticates the user (S603), and manages the home network management server. In step S604, service item information is provided.

When the voter selects the electronic voting service among the service items, the voter mobile phone accesses the electronic voting system 606 according to the control transfer of the home network management server 200 (S606), and targets the voter from the electronic voting system 300. Receive a list of voting events, and if one of the voting events list is selected, requests for voting data for the voting event (S607).

The electronic voting system 300 provides voting data for the corresponding voting event to the voter cell phone through the home network management server 200 (S608, S609), the voter checks the voting data and performs the voting (S610). .

When the voter performs voting, the voting result is transmitted to the electronic voting system 300 through the home network management server 200 (S611), and the electronic voting system 300 uses the received voting performance information by using the public key. After encryption, the data is stored (S612).

After the encryption is completed, the electronic voting system 300 transmits the result of the voting process to the voter mobile phone through the home network management server 200 so that the user can check it (S613, S614).

The ballot counting process for the votes participated through the voter mobile phone is the same as the description with reference to FIG. 5.

The technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but this is by way of example only and not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

The present invention enables voters registered as home network subscribers to easily and comfortably participate in voting using a home or wireless terminal, and can easily and comfortably open a voting notice and vote notices to voters by using a voting establishment home network. do. In addition, the present invention provides an electronic voting service based on the PKI, only the voting establisher can check the voting results, thereby enhancing security from the outside.

Claims (10)

A user terminal for a user who can access a home network; A home network management server for managing information on home network subscribers and various services for home network subscribers, performing authentication for home network users, and notifying a voter to participate in voting; And Access authentication is performed under the control of the home network management server, and provides a voting service such as voting establishment, voting participation, and voting notice request to subscribers of the home network management server, and provides a public key and a private key to the voting initiator. And an electronic voting system that provides voting information encrypted by the public key and deciphered by the private key for voting performance information participated in a voting event established by a voting founder. The method of claim 1, The user terminal is a home network terminal, a mobile phone, a two-way digital TV, a DMB terminal, an Internet computer installed in the home electronic voting service system using a home network, characterized in that one of the Internet. The method of claim 1, The home network management server is an electronic voting service system in the home network using the PK eye, characterized in that for performing the voting participation notification by SMS or email. Electronic voting service in home network using PK eye using user terminal that can access home network, home network access authentication and home network management server managing subscriber information and service, and electronic voting system that provides electronic voting service In the method, A first step in which an investor establishes and registers a voting event in the electronic voting system using the user terminal, and receives a public key and a private key accordingly; A second step of requesting a voting participation notification for the voting event while the investment creator has connected to the electronic voting system through the home network management server; The electronic voting system is a third step of receiving and managing information from the home network management server for the vote target to participate in the voting event; The electronic voting system is a fourth step of requesting the home network management server to notify the vote participation of the voting target; A fifth step of notifying the voting participation to each of the voting targets; The electronic voting system includes a sixth step of encrypting and storing the public key provided to the investment creator when the voting performance information is received from the user terminal of the voting target; And The electronic voting system includes a seventh step of receiving the private key from the voting establisher and decrypting the stored encrypted voting performance information when the voting establisher requests the voting process. Access to the electronic voting system through the home network management server is an electronic voting service method in a home network using a PK eye, characterized in that the connection to the electronic voting system made after the user authentication to the home network management server. . The method of claim 4, wherein In the first step, the investor establishes the voting event by accessing the electronic voting system after receiving user authentication at the home network management server using the user terminal. Electronic Voting Service Method. The method of claim 4, wherein In the first step, the investment founder registers the voting event by directly accessing the electronic voting system without using the home network management server by using the user terminal. Service method. The method according to claim 4 or 5, The home network management server is an electronic voting service method in a home network using a PK eye, characterized in that the user is automatically connected to the electronic voting system when the subscriber selects the electronic voting service. The method of claim 4, wherein The voting target to participate in the voting event is a subscriber of the home network management server. The method of claim 4, wherein In the fifth step, the home network management server is an electronic voting service method in the home network using the PK eye, characterized in that notifying the voting participation by SMS or email. A first step in which an investor establishes and registers a voting event in an electronic voting system using a user terminal, and receives a public key and a private key accordingly; A second step of requesting a notification of participation in a voting event in a state in which the investment creator has connected to the electronic voting system through a home network management server; The electronic voting system is a third step of receiving and managing information from the home network management server for the vote target to participate in the voting event; The electronic voting system is a fourth step of requesting the home network management server to notify the vote participation of the voting target; A fifth step of notifying the voting participation to each of the voting targets; The electronic voting system encrypts and stores the public key provided to the investment creator when the voting performance information is received from the user terminal of the voting party and stores the encrypted voting information; And The electronic voting system is provided with a program for executing a seventh step of receiving the private key from the voting establisher and processing the voting by decrypting the stored encrypted voting performance information. 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