Educational Certificate Verification System: Enhancing Security and Authenticity using Ethereum Blockchain and IPFS
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https://doi.org/10.23851/mjs.v35i1.1461Keywords:
Blockchain technology, Educational certificate verification, Ethereum blockchain, InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Decentralized architecture, Certificate counterfeiting, Ropsten test networkAbstract
Educational certificate counterfeiting is a major global challenge. There is no doubt that addressing both the problem of forgery and the verification of academic certificates is a fundamental issue that deserves research, development, and support at the highest levels. This paper presents a decentralized educational certificate verification system leveraging the Ethereum blockchain and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to combat counterfeiting. Ropsten is used as a real-life Ethereum test network to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. IPFS is used to store educational certificate files on a decentralised file system. The smart contract is built in the Solidity language, compiled, and deployed using the online Remix IDE. The verification process is supported by scanning a QR code, which retrieves the validating certificate’s information from the Ethereum network in real-time.
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