HEC ATTESTATION SYSTEM

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to develop a system, where institutions will be able to issue digital certificates making use of the latest distributed ‘4IPFS stoiage technology, which provides us with the highest degree ol security, transpaiency, tiust less and tamper-proofsystem. Uploading certificates online and maintaining the IPfS hashes means, tampering any certificate is nearly impossible since its hash is stored somewhere along the block chain, and upon change in its data, the hash of this block will change, the two hashes will no longer be equal and the hash stored in our block chain will no longer point to the same data, therefore, making the block-chain invalid, thus new alteration attempt will be rejected immediately and hence, any degree that is once issued, will remain as it is forever. This solves the issue of post-issuance forgery, but does not cater to the scenario where an individual bribes the issuing authorities and falsely issues a fake degree for themselves. To solve this issue, we have developed a flow where institution will forward the degree information to HEC and then, HEC will verify this data, check its authenticity and finally, issue the degree as well as upload online and update the block chain automatically. This flow ofinformation, multiple approvals, and final attestation by HEC means it is very likely, that the organization which will be involved in trying to issue this forged document can be easily caught along the line and hence, blocked by the HEC from further issuing degrees, therefore, maintaining the integrity of our prestigious education system and its certifications. We believe that this system will help elevate our society by removing the people who attained their positions unrightfully since they will not be able to forge their documents to falsely attain positions, and help bring right people to the right places, who know how things should be and are verified, deserving, qualified members of our society.