Notarization and Anti-Plagiarism: A New Blockchain Approach
Tonino Palmisano, Vito Nicola Convertini, Lucia Sarcinella, Luigia Gabriele, Mariangela Bonifazi
Abstract
In traditional notarization processes, the correctness of the activities between the parties is guaranteed by a central authority or guaranteeing institution. In this case, the authority is not able to quickly establish the originality of the content to be notarized, or at least to have a large degree of certainty without the use of automated systems. This paper presents a new notarization platform that uses blockchain technology and integrates advanced anti-plagiarism approaches able to effectively detect copyright violations of documents that users want to notarize. In addition, our proposal includes the use of models, methods, and techniques, through which a very high level of privacy and information security can be guaranteed.