A Unique One-Time Password Table Sequence Pattern Authentication: Application to Bicol University Union of Federated Faculty Association, Inc. (BUUFFAI) eVoting System

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Short Paper A Unique One-Time Password Table Sequence Pattern Authentication: Application to Bicol University Union of Federated Faculty Association, Inc. (BUUFFAI) eVoting System
Benedicto B. Balilo Jr. Technological Institute of the Philippines Quezon City, Philippines benedicto.balilojr@gmail.com

Bobby D. Gerardo West Visayas State University Iloilo City, Philippines bobby.gerardo@gmail.com

Ruji P. Medina Dean, Technological Institute of the Philippines Graduate Programs Quezon City, Philippines ruji_p_medina@yahoo.com

Yungcheol Byun Faculty of Telecommunications and Computer Engineering Cheju National University, Jeju, Korea ycb@jejunu.ac.kr

Date received: May 14, 2017 Date received in revised form: June 28, 2017 Date accepted: June 28, 2017

Recommended citation:

Balilo, B. B. Jr., Gerardo, B. D., Medina, R. P. & Byun, Y. (2017). A unique one-time password table sequence pattern authentication: Application to Bicol University Union of Federated Faculty Association, Inc. (BUUFFAI) eVoting system. International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 1(1), 1-10. doi: 10.25147/ijcsr.2017.001.1.03

Abstract
Purpose – Electronic Voting System (EVS) is a type of voting program that deals primarily with the selection, the casting of votes with embedded security mechanism that detects errors, and the tamper-proof election of results done through the use of an electronic system. It can include optical scan, specialized voting kiosks and Internet voting approach. Most organizations have difficulties when it comes to voting and the Bicol University Union of Federated Faculty Association Incorporated (BUUFFAI) is not an exception. Some of the problems involved include convenience, cost, geographical location of the polling precinct, and voting turnouts.

Method – This study extends the scope of the current BUUFFAI eVoting system to address such issues and to eliminate inconvenience both to the faculty voters and the facilitators. This voting scheme used an algorithmic OTP scheme based on table sequence pattern schedule that randomly generates an XY coordinate unique to voters that will be sent to voter registered email address.

Results – This study addressed the security requirements and maintained election procedures with confidentiality, integrity and availability. Keywords – electronic voting system, one-time password

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INTRODUCTION

Electronic voting systems (EVS) are widely used in elections. The EVS (also known as eVoting System) encompasses different types of voting that used electronic means to count votes. There are two types of e-voting system: the paper voting and the remote voting. Paper voting includes the current voting system and postal voting (absentee voting). Electronic Voting technology can include optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (Lee, Lee, Won, & Kim, 2010). When voters cast their votes, the latter are recorded to the chip and the removable memory card can serve as storage or temporary backup. EVS can also include transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer network or the internet. The voting stations may or may not be interconnected and may operate as a single unit as a complete polling station. The system tracks the number of votes and continuously displays the number of votes cast on a counter system. In terms of security, it can be controlled by the polling authorities or operated independently (Kotob et al., 2004).

Riera and Brown (2003) believed that the lack of transparency in electronic voting systems can be overcome with extent technology, physical, and procedure security measures. They believed that such measures provides clarity to the process and avoid the need to rely on complex and/or network systems and/or proprietary closed systems, and minimize the number of components that must be trusted to software generating the encrypted ballot and the software opening of digital boxes. These would avoid problems interposed by the computer systems and technical personnel between the voter and the electoral board. Nonetheless, doubts still remain that some criteria must be completed and satisfied. Some of the basic criteria include confidentiality, integrity, availability, reliability and assurance for computer systems (Neumann, 1993).

Olaniyi, Arulogun, and Omidiora (2013) developed an eVoting system designed to improve the authentication and integrity of evoting system multifactor authentication and cryptographic hash function methods.
It gathered the two key security issues to secure e-voting systems; namely, threat of erring voter‟s authentication and integrity of vote transmitted over insecure wireless medium.

The BUUFFAI is an association of teaching

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