Development and Evaluation of Blockchain based Secure Application for Verification and Validation of Academic Certificates

Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing

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Leka, Elva¹  Selimi, Besnik¹ 

[1] South East European University;Polytechnic University of Tirana

关键词: Blockchain;    Ethereum;    Smart Contract;    Test Environment;    Verification Application;   

DOI  :  10.33166/AETiC.2021.02.003

学科分类：电子与电气工程

来源: International Association for Educators and Researchers (IAER)

【 摘 要 】

Academic degrees are subject to corruptions, system flaws, forgeries, and imitations. In this paper we propose to develop a blockchain smart contract-based application using Ethereum Platform, to store, distribute and verify academic certificates. It constitutes a trusted, decentralized certificate’s management system that can offer a unified viewpoint for students, academic institutions, as well as for other potential stakeholders such as employers. The article describes the implementation of three main parts of our proposed solution that includes: verification application, university interface and accreditor interface. This application avoids administrative barriers, makes the process of deployment, verification, and validation of certificates faster, efficient, and more secure. Additionally, it offers confidentiality of the data by using AES encryption algorithm before creating transactions and allows bulk submission of multiple academic certificates.

【 授权许可】

CC BY