A Blockchain-based Technique to Prevent Grade Tampering: A University Perspective

Abstract

Education plays a significant role in the advancement of a country. The quality of education that a university provides is crucial to this progress. Almost every university stores the assessed grades on the local server, making them vulnerable to different security attacks e.g. DDoS, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, etc. Any alteration to the assessed grades highly affects the students' personal, academic, and professional lives. This study proposes a blockchain-based secure approach for storing, managing and recovering students' grades by employing both a local server and a blockchain server. The immutability feature of blockchain ensures grade integrity and facilitates the implementation of a grade recovery system. Grades are encrypted before storing on the local and blockchain server to protect privacy. The blockchain server returns the index number of the corresponding block to the user for further use. Finally, the experimental analyses demonstrate the system's effectiveness over state-of-the-art works.