Secure Sharing of Student Credentials Using Blockchain

Sharing students’ credentials is an essential process for any educational ecosystem that includes diverse stakeholders such as students, teachers, various committees of institutes, administrations, government agencies, and many more. All of these stakeholders take extensive measures to ensure the authenticity and confidentiality of students’ testimonials when those are being shared. In spite of these concerns, the distribution of students’ credentials is a vulnerable, potentially complex, and sometimes insecure process. The goal is to reduce the existing security-related issues when sharing the students’ credentials with the help of blockchain technology. The technology of blockchain can be used effectively to solve the issue of securely exchanging student credentials. We proposed a secure, immutable, authentic, tamper-proof, privacy-preserving, and easily shareable blockchain-based mechanism for securely exchanging students’ credentials. In order to make the process of sharing credentials scalable, we proposed a secure off-chain store mechanism. A decentralized application based on Ethereum technology is used for conducting an analysis of the architecture with regard to its performance as well as its potential feasibility.