Certificate Verification using Blockchain and Generation of Transcript
Devdoot Maji, Ravi Singh Lamkoti, Hitesh Shetty, Bharati Gondhalekar
Abstract
An estimated 26.3 million students enrolled in Indian higher education in 2018-19 and nearly 9 million graduates annually. A student, whether he is a high school student or an undergraduate, or maybe a postgraduate, generates a lot of certificates that may include results, diplomas, or transcripts during this entire duration of studies. For admission, students need to produce these certificates in institutions or companies. Tracking these certificates and validating their authenticity manually becomes a tedious job. The absence of an appropriate anti-forge system leads to a scenario where it is found that the graduation certificate is forged. To make the data more secure and safe, everything needs to be digitalized with the principle of Confidentiality, Reliability, and Availability. All of these can be achieved with a technology named Blockchain. Briefly, the flow of our system will consist of a Certificate issuer who will generate certificates and those certificates will be validated by a panel within that organization before being sent to a student. Each certificate will have a unique hash key which can be used to validate the authenticity of the certificate by any organization through the portal. The benefit of such a system is that the student also faces less risk of losing or damaging a certificate and the validation of the certificate can also be done quite easily.