Abstract:
Educational certificate verification is the process of checking and verifying the certificate
legitimacy of graduate students. It is a costly, lengthy, and time-consuming procedure as
university authorities each year investing millions of dollars on maintaining the entire
process. The employer also takes plenty of time for verifying the authenticity of the
applicant’s certificate. The current certification system involves providing physical
certificates to the candidates. For this reason, they aren’t tamper-resistant and can be lost
anytime. Also due to counterfeiting the certificates by scammers and issued by a lot of
illegal institutions is make the process hazardous. People frequently lie about their degrees
and qualifications by counterfeiting certificates. A fake certificate generated by skillful
scammers is always tough to identify and can be addressed as the original one. Therefore,
there is a crucial need to upgrade the certification and verification process. In this article,
we have introduced the DIUcerts - a blockchain-based decentralized platform to overcome
the mentioned problem is stated. This platform offers an easy way to issue, check, and
verify educational certificates. Additionally, in DIUcerts, data doesn’t have to be stored in
one place as each certificate’s information is kept in an individual file and entire issuance
and verifications are done through the Ethereum platform. With this infrastructure, the cost
of maintaining a blockchain-based certificate verification system could be highly
minimized as compared to building a similar application on a centralized database. As a
result, DIUcerts can lead to better security, cost savings, and a time-saving platform.