A Decentralized Way to Store and Authenticate Educational Documents on Private Blockchain

Abstract

A decentralized private Blockchain implementation for academic document storage and document verification can add self-sovereignty to the process. It can dramatically minimize the time and cost of verification at various layers of verification. Blockchain would remove all the layers at all and it will provide immediate auditing of any document. So, the request and response will be truly real time in our case.Apart from speeding up the verification process, it will also increase the security of personal education data and will check all kind of misuse also. Putting documents on Blockchain would increase the security, because all the data would only be accessible by private key and proper authentication to that private key.We are proposing a private Blockchain that would be managed by some private vendors and only those vendors will take part in consensus. So, we are using proof of stake consensus in our case. We are using private IPFS database server for storing our documents over Blockchain. We are considering Ethereum Blockchain ecosystem in our case. Alternatively we can also use Hyperledger Fabric for implementation but that discussion is out of the scope for current document.