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Dec 27th, 2005

Java Encryption (Elections System)

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Hi everyone, i am building a secure online voting system for my project, i really need some tips on how i can go about encrypting the information stored in a database which contains the votes submitted by the candidates. I was told by my project supervisor to try and implement public/private key encryption, i really dont know where to start. Please if u have any more ideas i could use to make the system more secure let me know. Thanks

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Re: Java Encryption (Elections System)

Java has a really nice security package that will do everything for you.

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Re: Java Encryption (Elections System)

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) which is part of J2SE(1.4 onwards) has packages and framework to carryout encryption.

Check out following sites
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...ERefGuide.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...EProvider.html

Oracle also provides DBMS packages which can be used to carryout encryption. Following are the Oracle packages that have functions related to encryption

Oracle Package DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT (Oracle Database 8i, 9i and 10g )
Oracle Package DBMS_CRYPTO (Oracle Database 10g )

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Hi everyone, i am building a secure online voting system for my project, i really need some tips on how i can go about encrypting the information stored in a database which contains the votes submitted by the candidates. I was told by my project supervisor to try and implement public/private key encryption, i really dont know where to start. Please if u have any more ideas i could use to make the system more secure let me know. Thanks

tip#1) Please DO NOT allow the 'candidates' to submit all of the votes. Wouldn't it make much more sense to allow the 'voters' to submit the votes?

tip#2) Stay away from the public/private key charade. Are you going to lock-up your house and then toss duplicates of the key into the street for anyone to pick up?

tip#3) Code for common encryption systems are widely available on the 'net -- if you can't find Java code for your favorite one(s), then it'd be an educational benefit to you to do the conversion(s).

http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/rijndael/

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