Russian telecommunication big Rostelekom, along with the Russian Ministry of Digital Growth and Communications, examined a blockchain-based voting
Russian telecommunication big Rostelekom, along with the Russian Ministry of Digital Growth and Communications, examined a blockchain-based voting system developed in collaboration with Waves Enterprise.
As native information retailers reported, the preliminary take a look at concerned 30,000 individuals who had been making an attempt out the platform’s performance and technical capabilities. In response to Rostelekom spokespeople, the system labored as meant throughout the take a look at and didn’t fail below excessive load.
Votes had been reportedly counted in lower than one minute by homomorphic encryption techniques. This technique permits calculations to end in the identical output even when the underlying information stays encrypted.
Officers famous that the take a look at helped them to establish some usability points. They’ve since pledged that the suggestions might be used to make the platform extra accessible and intuitive.
The platform might be used for a partial parliamentary election within the Kursk and Yaroslavl areas on from Sep. 11 by 13. A further mock election might be carried out on Aug. 31 as a closing verify of the system earlier than its reside deployment.
It is a continuation of Russia’s blockchain voting experiments, first carried out in 2019 for the Moscow native elections after which in June 2020 for the controversial constitutional modification referendum.
The platform used for the upcoming election was developed in collaboration with Waves Enterprise and it’s a fully impartial product from earlier iterations.
As Cointelegraph beforehand reported, the Bitfury-developed platform used within the June election suffered from main efficiency points, safety bugs, allegations of fraud, and an alleged lack of transparency.
Whereas Waves assured Cointelegraph in earlier interviews that their system doesn’t comprise backdoors, critics of the earlier system argued that if it can’t be validated by exterior observers, blockchain presents treasured few enhancements over a centralized e-voting system.