DIUcerts DApp: A Blockchain-based Solution for Verification of Educational Certificates

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.