CollegeBloc: secure document storage for

educational institutes and recruiter system using

blockchain
Utsavi Jiten Visaria
K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering
Mumbai,India
visariautsavi04@gmail.com

Abstract— A student, whether in high school, pursuing

undergraduate, or postgraduate studies, generates numerous
certificates like results, diplomas, and transcripts throughout
their educational journey. These certificates are vital for
admissions into educational institutions or employment in
companies. However, manually tracking and verifying the
authenticity of these certificates can be a cumbersome task.
Without a reliable anti-forgery system in place, there is a risk of
encountering counterfeit graduation certificates. To enhance
the security and integrity of this data, there is a need for
digitization guided by the principles of Confidentiality,
Reliability, and Availability. This objective can be effectively
achieved through the application of blockchain technology. In a
nutshell, our system's workflow will involve a Certificate Issuer
responsible for creating certificates. Before these certificates are
issued to students, they will undergo validation by a panel within
the issuing organization. Each certificate will be associated with
a unique hash key, which serves as a means for any organization
to easily verify the certificate's authenticity through a dedicated
portal. The advantages of such a system are manifold. Students i
face reduced risks of losing or damaging their certificates, and
the process of verifying these certificates becomes significantly Fig.1. Architecture Diagram of the proposed system.
streamlined for organizations.

Keywords—c —Digital Certificates, Blockchain, IPFS,

Certificate Generation and Verification.

I. INTRODUCTION
In the typical educational journey in India, students
navigate through various stages from kindergarten to high
school, followed by transitions to junior colleges and different
universities for graduation. With approximately 26.3 million
students graduating annually, managing such a large volume
of records presents significant challenges. The vast population
also leads to the unfortunate proliferation of fraudulent
certificates, creating a pressing issue. The conventional
process demands students to repeatedly present their
certificates for validation at different stages, leading to risks
like certificate loss or damage. Validators are burdened with
the task of authenticating numerous certificates, often leading
to time-consuming processes. In this scenario, the emergence
of blockchain technology offers a promising solution.
Blockchain ensures the integrity of data, making it tamper-
proof and instantly detectable if altered. Validation in a
blockchain system involves multiple parties, ensuring high II. LITERATURE
reliability and authentication. The proposed system not only
validates certificates but also generates them, streamlining the
process significantly. This automation reduces validation time Centralized storage and management mode is usually
to mere seconds, eliminating concerns about certificate loss or adopted, which makes systems that use this mode vulnerable
damage. In essence, this innovative system addresses the to various attacks as cited in the EduRSS by Li, Hongzhi &
existing flaws, providing an automated, reliable, and secure Han, Dezhi & Li, Kuan-Ching & Castiglione, Arcangelo [1].
solution that benefits both students and organizations. This Besides, the records of different educational stages are stored
proposed system Fig.1. not only removes the loopholes in our
current system but also gives us an effective and concrete in separate storage servers of education institutions and these
solution. storage servers are usually designed to allow access only by
internal staff, without any form of interoperability. To protect
personal information, institutions usually adopt security

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policies to restrict the access and sharing of records. A novel
scheme is proposed, which integrates educational records
storage and sharing among education institutions enabled by
blockchain, storage servers and smart contracts. A
consortium blockchain is constructed, which is formed by
institutions to record educational data in a verifiable and
immutable ledger to guarantee data auditability. Multiple
institutes can participate in the blockchain. The storage
process is based on blockchain techniques and storage servers
which are secure. The sharing scheme of educational records
proposed in this work refers to achieving a state of secure and
reliable sharing of educational records, and this sharing
operation usually takes place between nodes on the
blockchain. Anti-tampering inspection based on blockchain.
Collusion, Tamper Attack (could be achieved when the
number of member nodes is small) and Replay Attack.
Aiming at the need for protection and sharing of educational
records, a secure storage and sharing scheme based on the
blockchain, referred to as EduRSS by Li, Hongzhi & Han,
Dezhi & Li, Kuan-Ching & Castiglione, Arcangelo [1]. The
integrity and security of the data can be ensured by the
consortium chain between institutions. A distributed
institution authentication mechanism is proposed to ensure
the security of blockchain nodes. Due to digitalization, most
of all records including student records have been digitized.
However, currently different digital profiles of a student are
still stored dispersedly in multiple databases, which results in
information silos and vulnerability to security and privacy
threats. Aiming at these deficiencies, this paper by Zhang,
Xiaofei & Du, Haiping & Jia, Zhijuan & Cui, Chi & Yang,
Yanyan [2] proposes a secure storage and sharing scheme of
student digital profiles based on blockchain technology. With
the characteristics of decentralization, security, credibility,
and tamper-resistance of the blockchain, the consensus of
network nodes is achieved through the Delegated Byzantine
Fault Tolerance (DBFT) protocol, and the sharing of student
digital profile information is achieved through the access
control mechanism. The public information of educational
digital information is preserved on the blockchain, and the
student profiles are encrypted and stored in a database or
cloud, which facilitates the effective storage of personal
digital profiles and information sharing among various
systems. This paper [3] is focused on finding the potential
applications of blockchain technology in solving educational
problems. It provides the core features and advantages of
blockchain technology followed by a few of the current
blockchain applications for education. The benefits and
challenges are also discussed. As of the present application in
education most universities and institutes use blockchain
technology to support academic degree management and
summative evaluation for learning outcomes. It can formulate
the whole transcript, which includes learning contents and
outcomes as well as student’s achievements and academic
certificates. It also includes information about research
experience, skills, online learning experience as well as
individual interests. These data can be safely stored as
described in the paper [4] and accessed on a blockchain
network in appropriate ways. This contributes to reducing
degree fraud significantly. The proposed ideas for future
implementation are carrying out instructing and learning
activities for teachers and students based on smart contracts.
Motivating students by implementing the “learning is
earning” model. Students will get a certain number of digital
currencies according to smart contracts as rewards.
Employers can use this information to offer you a job that
matches your skills. On the other hand, the user who wants
an excellent employee can also resort to the blockchain
ledger. In a word, blockchain maximizes the interests of both
parties and will greatly decrease the risk of investment bias
and failure. The immutability feature of blockchain
technology [5] would act as a double-edged sword. It
removes the possibility of modifying educational records for
legitimate reasons for some students.
III. TECHNOLOGIES USED
React: We use react for building interactive user interfaces
and web applications quickly and efficiently.
Solidity [9]: Solidity is a statically typed programming
language designed for developing smart contracts that run on
Ethereum. We use solidity for the core smart contracts of our
project. • Node JS: Node JS is used to write backends and is
responsible for serving frontend pages, assets and managing
authentication using JWT(Json Web Token). It also has
web3 as a dependency which allows us to run solidity code
on frontend. • IPFS: The Inter Planetary File System is a
peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a
distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to
uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting
all computing devices. • MetaMask: MetaMask is an
extension for accessing Ethereum enabled distributed
applications or ”Dapps” in your browser. The extension
injects the Ethereum web3 API into every website’s
JavaScript context so that Dapps can read from the
blockchain. • Ganache: Ganache is used for testing Solidity
contracts on a personal Ethereum Blockchain. It by default
provides an easy setup for spinning up a network with
around ten users with each having 100 eths on their account.
These accounts can be used to mimic the transactions
between the users. • Truffle [8]: It provides easy compilation,
linking, deployment and binary management of smart
contracts written in solidity language.
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