S.C. Satapathy et al. (eds.), ICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of CSI - Volume II, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 249, 643 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03095-1_70, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 Secured Internet Voting System Based on Combined DSA and Multiple DES Algorithms K. Sujatha 1 , A. Arjuna Rao 1 , L.V. Rajesh 1 , V. Vivek Raja 1 , and P.V. Nageswara Rao 2 1 Miracle Educational Society Group of Institutions, Vizianagram 2 GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Abstract. Internet Voting with the widespread use of Internet is becoming increasingly appealing to groups in place of paper based elections or vote-by- mail elections to geographically distributed voters, as more people are gaining access to the Internet. However, I-Voting systems should be designed carefully or otherwise they may corrupt results or violate voters privacy. This paper proposes the concept of Internet Voting using combined Digital Signature Algorithm and Multiple Data Encryption Standard Algorithm that supports every phase of the electoral process to ensure its security, privacy and transparency. The idea of using security algorithms is to provide a secure method to encrypt and sign data. First the Digital Signature Algorithm is used to generate digital signature that is used as a key for Data Encryption Standard Algorithm. The random number and Digital Signature are send to authorized person using a secure channel. Then Data Encryption Algorithm is applied random number of times for obtaining Multiple Data Encryption Standard. In this work, the aspects and risks involved in Internet Voting architectures are considered and a solution is derived for better usage. The Secured Internet Voting System is simulated and the test results show that the proposed system is secured and flexible. The function of this system is to maintain the most basic principles of an elector process, such as secrecy, correctness, anonymity, non- coercion. Keywords: Internet Voting(I-Voting), Digital Signature Algorithm(DSA), Multiple Data Encryption Algorithm(MDES), Data Encryption Standard Algorithm (DES), The Secured Internet Voting System(SIVS). 1 Introduction Information Technology has colossal influence in our daily lives. Election mechanisms are no exception. Electronic Voting Machines(EVMs) are replacing paper based and mechanical balloting system. Electronic voting technology can speed the counting of ballots and can provide improved accessibility for disabled voters. But some concerns with these machines are trustworthiness of both their hardware and their software. Generally public and political parties have raised their doubts that whether presently used EVMs are developed without any scope for tampering. Voting systems use to ensure that votes were cast correctly to detect possible fraud or