Issuing and Verifying Digital Certificates with Blockchain

Abstract

Blockchain technology is already being exploited in various ways for saving cost with high security to create and manage the distributed system as well as to record information about transactions without the verification of the third party. In addition, the issue of counterfeit certification is making education managers around the world a particular interest. It is a serious problem up to now. Therefore, deploying the system to issuing and verifying digital certificate based on blockchain technology will solve the problem of counterfeit certification which there is not any prior technology really address it. In this study, we propose and implement an issuing and verifying model called UniCert based on UniCoin which is a digital currency built on the blockchain technology. Our diagram can be extended to address many other issues such as anti-counterfeiting, copyright protection of music products, patents, etc.