Paper 2021/1566
Towards Using Blockchain Technology to Prevent Diploma Fraud
Qiang Tang
Abstract
After its debut with Bitcoin in 2009, Blockchain has attracted enormous attention and been used in many different applications as a trusted black box. Many applications focus on exploiting the Blockchain-native features (e.g. trust from consensus, and smart contracts) while paying less attention to the application-specific requirements. In this paper, we initiate a systematic study on the applications in the education and training sector, where Blockchain is leveraged to combat diploma fraud. We present a general system structure for digitized diploma management systems and identify both functional and non-functional requirements. Our analysis show that all existing Blockchain-based systems fall short in meeting these requirements. Inspired by the analysis, we propose a Blockchain-facilitated solution by leveraging some basic cryptographic primitives and data structures. Following-up analysis show that our solution respects all the identified requirements very well.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- BlockchainPrivacySecurityDiploma management
- Contact author(s)
- qiang tang @ list lu
- History
- 2021-12-02: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/1566
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1566,
author = {Qiang Tang},
title = {Towards Using Blockchain Technology to Prevent Diploma Fraud},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1566},
year = {2021},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1566}
}
