A Digital Certificate Forgery Prevention Using Blockchain Technology

Assuring the authenticity and seamless transmission of digitally stored student records is one of the main challenges for today’s educational institutions. Higher education institutions are willing to take necessary precautions to prevent the manipulation of these digital records. The process of validating these records can be facilitated by employing blockchain technology that ensures the authenticity, transparency, and immutability of digital data. This will also lessen the significance of third-party document authentication. In this study, we proposed a novel framework for efficiently and securely storing, verifying, and sharing student academic data using blockchain technology in order to prevent potential data fabrication and tampering. Here, we have used Keccak-256 secure hash algorithm for generating a unique and identical 256-bit hash value for a particular student record. The data integrity will be guaranteed by this identical hash value. Overall, this study offers a cost-effective, reliable, and safe data transfer mechanism by utilizing blockchain’s key features, such as digital access rule, immutability, transparency, and self-sovereignty.