MOBILE VOTING SYSTEM USING IRIS RECOGNITION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES

*,** BE. II-EEE, Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem, India.*** Professor, Department of EEE, Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem, India.

ABSTRACT

With the advancement of electronics and computer science, mobile communication technology leads us to a fast

moving entirely different world. In this scenario, we have lot of responsibilities, one of it is voting for our country, but even

we don't have time for it, and also our votes may not useful to our nation, because of fake votes and cheating process

happened during the election. This problem is rectified by the latest voting system as “Mobile Voting System” which is

discussed in this paper. The mobile voting system uses the efficient techniques, iris recognition and cryptography for the

secured voting process. The iris recognition and cryptography avoids the fake votes and cheating process. The election

commission spends lot of money, for each election unnecessarily, which will be minimized by this system. This system

enables the voter to vote to the Nation from his place itself.

Keywords: Iris Recognition and Iris Code, Cryptography Techniques, Mobile and RSA Algorithm.

INTRODUCTION

Mobile voting system use the iris recognition and

cryptography techniques, for voting purpose, the

encryption algorithm is uploaded in the mobile phone. As

like the eye scanner which scans the iris is fixed in the

mobile, so the mobile phone having camera is preferred

for that. To obtain the voting the voters eye iris is

recognized. During the transmission from the source

(mobile) to destination (election database system) the

data is encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The

data sending and receiving is doing with the help of the

mobile networks.

1. Iris Recognition

Everyone in the world has the uniqueness of their own;

such uniqueness cannot be imitated/remake by anyone.

Such uniqueness is used for a security purpose. As an iris

technology produces a very low false rate when

compared to other biometrics results are very preferable

in our mobile voting system.[1],[2]

1.1 Iris Scanning

Iris scanning can seem very futuristic, but at the heart of

the system is a simple CCD digital camera. It uses both

visible and near-infrared light to take a clear, high-contrast

picture of a person's iris.

With near-infrared light, a person's pupil is very black,

making it easy for the computer to isolate the pupil and

iris[1],[2][6]. On look into an iris scanner, either the cameras

focuses automatically or use a mirror or audible feedback

from the system to make sure that eye is positioned

correctly as shown in Figure1. Iris scanner is actually not a

scanning device, but it is a digital camera with iris

scanning software. Usually, eye should be 20 to 25 cm

from the camera. When the camera takes a picture, the

computer locates: shown in Figure 2.

The center of the pupil

The edge of the pupil

The edge of the iris

The eyelids and eyelashes

It then analyzes the patterns in the iris and translates them

into a code. Iris scanners are becoming more common in

high-security applications because people's eyes are so

unique (the chance of mistaking one iris code for another

is 1 in 10 to the 78th power they also allow more than 200

points of reference for comparison, as opposed to 60 or

70 points in fingerprints. The iris is a visible but protected

structure, and it does not usually change over time,

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K. GOPAL * N. SUTHANTHIRA VANITHA ***S. PRAVEEN **

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