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Academic certificates are essential to acknowledge one’s academic achievement. With the credentials, it can be used to develop a career in a desired industry based on the qualifications. However, nowadays, fake academic certificates are used by irresponsible individuals to apply for a job. Therefore, it is crucial for the employer to validate one’s academic certificate before offering them the job position. To validate, a certificate may be too troublesome and require a long time for the verification process. In addition, the employer must check with the certificate’s issuer, which can involve a lot of processes. Thus, to solve this problem, blockchain-based certificate verification is introduced where the issuer can store the certificates details inside a blockchain network with the help of a smart contract feature that is immutable and anti-counterfeit. Smart contract is written in Solidity programming language and executed in Remix IDE. In terms of security for this smart contract, only the certificate’s issuer is able to add, edit, modify, and delete the details stored. Not only that, the contract’s owner also unable to add data into the blockchain due to the decentralized feature of a blockchain network. The average execution time for the smart contract is 8.3 s. All changes made to the certificate’s details can be tracked; thus, changes to the previous recording are impossible. This system will benefit the university because the students' data can be stored in a system and can be retrieved anytime. For a third-party user such as the employer, it can save time to check the validity of the academic certificates they received because the system generates the confirmation of transaction in less than five seconds.
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Lee, A., Zainodin, A.Z., Mahamad, A.K., Saon, S., Ahmadon, M.A., Yamaguchi, S. (2023). Blockchain-Based Certificate Verification. In: So-In, C., Londhe, N.D., Bhatt, N., Kitsing, M. (eds) Information Systems for Intelligent Systems . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 324. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7447-2_32
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