Securing the Digital Script of the Holy Quran on the Internet

Abstract

With the explosion of the world wide web (WWW), the overwhelming number of web pages that contain electronic versions of the Holy Quran script is rapidly increasing with a very fast pace. This leads to the vulnerability of the electronic version of Holy Quran script to deliberate or accidental mistakes or changes. None of the sites on the internet that presents the Holy Quran script shows any verification of the displayed version from a well-known authentication agency. In this paper, a computer system based on the public key infrastructure (PKI) and the digital signature is presented to secure and verify the content of Holy Quran script on the web. The implementation of the proposed system shows its applicability.