ResStorage - Blockchain Based Decentralized Resume Storage Application

Abstract

Blockchain is the technology that has had the greatest influence on our lives in the last decade. It is a technique that makes it difficult to hack the system or alter the data it stores, keeping it safe and unchangeable at all times. Our research exploits this unique feature provided by blockchain to ensure the privacy of job applicants. We extract text from resumes in PDF format, encrypt it and store the hash value in a blockchain. Our implementation involves the usage of Ganache, Truffle and Metamask with a front end designed using ReactJS. The resumes can be accessed via the blockchain from the administrator side and viewed in its original format. The data integrity of the resumes can then be checked at any point by converting a resume to its unique hash and comparing it with the hash stored inside the blockchain.