Advanced unique smart card verification system for Validation of university certificates with AES and LUHN algorithm

As per reports, many fake certificates are being produced by the people for admissions into further studies or getting recruited to any company. Though third party verification system are being availed by the companies, it is very time consuming and also lot of investment is to be done on human resources for this work. In college or university admissions also, fake certificates are troubling a lot for authorities of admission if the certificates produced are identified as fake after giving the admission to the student. This makes ambiguity in the admission process. In present days, digitization of all kinds of transactions is being encouraged. Certificates verification system is also to be digitized in maintaining the integrity of university certificates. In this paper, a hybrid system for securely validating digitized university certificates with combination of an AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), LUHN (Modulus 10 Algorithm) and Shake 128 is proposed which not only digitizes the certificate verification process but also provides more security.