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Blockchain Technology and Academic Certificate Authenticity—A Review

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Expert Clouds and Applications

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Blockchain technology has the abilities that are decentralized, distributed, secure, faster, transparent, and non-modifiable. These are more beneficial than the existing technologies. Academic certificates issued by educational institutes are most significant for the students at the time of recruitment, attending government exams, applying for higher education, and also for getting visa to go abroad. The certificate issuing method is not very transparent and verifiable. Hence, there are a lot of chances for making fake certificates. This problem is solved by using the recently emerged blockchain technology with the feature of high data security and immutable data storage in distributed ledger to fight back the document fraud and forge. This research is aimed to enhance the document verification process by using blockchain technology. And also this paper centers around the broadening information on blockchain and recognizing the benefits, hazards, and therefore, the related difficulties regarding the effective execution of application supported blockchain technology with principles and rules for educational certificate verification. Finally, this review paper has proposed the academic certificate authenticity system by using blockchain technology to avoid the utilization of fake documents.

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  1. Tagore College of Arts and Science, VISTAS, Chennai, India

    K. Kumutha

  2. Department of Computer Applications, VISTAS, Chennai, India

    S. Jayalakshmi

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GITAM School of Technology, GITAM University, Bengaluru, India

    I. Jeena Jacob

  2. Electrical Power Engineering, University of South-Eastern Norway, Notodden, Norway

    Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, IL, USA

    Selvanayaki Kolandapalayam Shanmugam

  4. Department of Publishing Information Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine

    Ivan Izonin

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Kumutha, K., Jayalakshmi, S. (2022). Blockchain Technology and Academic Certificate Authenticity—A Review. In: Jeena Jacob, I., Gonzalez-Longatt, F.M., Kolandapalayam Shanmugam, S., Izonin, I. (eds) Expert Clouds and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 209. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2126-0_28

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