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 invest millions of
dollars in maintaining the entire process each year. The employer also
takes plenty of time to verify the authenticity of the applicant's
certificate. The current certification system provides traditional
certificates to the candidates. That's why certificates can be tampered
with and lost at any time. Moreover, counterfeiting the certificates by
scammers and issued by many illegal institutions makes 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 address as the original one.
Therefore, there is a crucial need to upgrade the certification and
verification process. This paper introduced a Blockchain-based
decentralized DIUcerts platform that 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; 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 for educational certificate
verification.