Academic credentials play an immensely significant role in the career of a person and in the progress of society. The system in place currently used for the issuance, storage & sharing of academic credentials is quite inefficient in its operations, due to being paper based in large. There is also widespread fraud committed every year in terms of academic credentials, ranging from diploma mills to plain forgery. There presents a need for a total digital transformation in this field, which ensures complete independent authenticity of credentials that could be proven in a fool-proof manner. Blockchain technology promises to alleviate the above identified problems by ensuring complete transparency & verifiable proofs of ownership using decentralized storage of credentials & Public Key Cryptography (PKC) in the form of Digital Signatures. This project implements the proposed solution by using the ECDSA algorithm to (i) sign the accreditation of institute by governing body, such as The Ministry of Education (MOE) (ii) sign the academic credentials by the issuing party (iii) sign the issued credentials by the learner to claim iv) sign the credentials by some governing body like the MOE. The learner can share the signed credential with any third party, such as a potential employer. The ECDSA algorithm can then authenticate the credential by programmatically verifying the signature proof by any party using the corresponding Public Key without going through tedious channels.

学历对于一个人的职业生涯和社会的进步发挥着极其重要的作用。由于大量纸质文件的存在，目前用于颁发、存储和共享学历证书的系统在操作上效率相当低。每年在学历方面也存在广泛的欺诈行为，从文凭工厂到普通伪造。该领域需要进行全面的数字化转型，以确保可以以万无一失的方式证明凭证的完全独立的真实性。区块链技术有望通过使用分散的凭证存储和数字签名形式的公钥加密技术 (PKC) 确保完全透明和可验证的所有权证明来缓解上述问题。该项目通过使用 ECDSA 算法来实施建议的解决方案，以 (i) 由教育部 (MOE) 等管理机构签署机构认证 (ii) 由颁发方签署学历证书 (iii) 签署颁发的学历证书iv) 由教育部等管理机构签署证书。学习者可以与任何第三方（例如潜在雇主）共享签名的凭据。然后，ECDSA 算法可以通过使用相应公钥以编程方式验证任何一方的签名证明来验证凭证，而无需通过繁琐的渠道。