Development of a Secured E-Voting System With OTP as Second Order Authentication

Volume 13 Issue 3 January - March 2019

Research Paper

Development of a Secured E-Voting System With OTP as Second Order Authentication

Habu J. Salami*, O. S. Adebayo**, A. O. Isah***, K. H. Lawal****, John K. Alhassan*****

*Information Technology Services, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.

**,***,***** Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.

**** Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.

Salami, H. J., Adebayo, O. S., Isah, A. O., Lawal, K. H., Alhassan, J. K. (2019). Development of a Secured E-Voting System With OTP as Second Order Authentication, i-manager's Journal on Software Engineering, 13(3), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.26634/jse.13.3.15686

Abstract

Electronic voting has become the most preferred and generally acceptable voting method in the 21st century. Advanced and developed countries are constantly reviewing their e-voting systems. However, the cyber security problem associated with the e-voting system has been giving concerns to cyber security experts and researchers. The authentication methods employed in existing e-voting system is for a voter to input a unique identification number that has been assigned after accreditation. This is to confirm of the voter's details in the voter registration data base. This paper seeks to develop a secured e-voting system that integrates a second order authentication in the form of One-Time Password to again confirm the voters' details in the registration data base before voting is allowed. Java programming language was employed in coding the OTP algorithm into the existing e-voting system algorithm. The e-voting system is more secure with this work.