BLOCKCHAIN BASED VERIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

Abstract

Educational Documents and Certificates
are a proof of professional achievements for anyone.
Without these documents, it is not possible to start
your career and hence play a very important role in
everyone’s professional life. Till date, Colleges,
Universities and various educational institutes issue
paper based degrees and certificates which are prone
to get damaged or may be lost. The other drawback is
that this process of issuing of degrees and manual
process of verification of those documents by third
parties is a time taking and cumbersome process. The
employers take a lot of time for verifying these paper
based degrees and certificates before they give the
job offer. Forgery of paper based documents is also
easier and has led to many educational scams. This
paper aims to give the solution to the problems
mentioned above through Blockchain
Implementation. Block chain technology is not only
limited to crypto currencies but is also of great
applications in various fields like health, supply chain
management, finance, etc. It has disrupted the
traditional education system. This paper highlights as
to how the educational certificates can be verified
using the Ethereum platform and smart contracts. The
traditional paper certificates would be converted to
digital certificates on student’s request, their hash
value would be calculated using cryptographic hash
functions and stored on Blockchain. A unique
certificate ID and transaction hash value would be
generated which would then be used to verify the
certificates through a common platform.