| dc.description.abstract | Documents like certificates
or student transcripts issued by educational institutions are
one of the most vital documents for graduates. These documents proves the qualification of a
person and could be used to apply for a job or other related matters. The advancement of today's
inf ormation technology and the availability of low cost and high quality office equipment have
enabled documents such as certificates, identity cards and passports easier to be faked However,
document verification process using traditional methods are mostly costly and very time
consuming. Accordingly, the c urrent objective of this report is to come up with a n ideal model
that can offer a potential solution for the issuing and verification of academic paper using
blockchain technology. The blockchain technolo gy contains several functions including hash,
public/private key cryptography, digital signatures, peer to peer networks and proof of work
protocol . The model can be divided into two main processes, issuing digital academic certificate s
and verifying them The proposed model showed that academic certificate authentication using
blockchain technology might overcome the challenges when verify ing academic certificate
authenticity in the existing traditional methods | en_US |
