{"id":309079,"date":"2021-07-27T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/india-to-use-ethereum-blockchain-to-verify-diploma-certificates\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:51:02","slug":"india-to-use-ethereum-blockchain-to-verify-diploma-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/india-to-use-ethereum-blockchain-to-verify-diploma-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"# India to use Ethereum blockchain to verify diploma certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# India to use Ethereum blockchain to verify diploma certificates <\/strong>”
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The Government of Maharashtra recently announced<\/a> a partnership with Indian blockchain startup LegitDoc to implement a credentialing system powered by Ethereum (ETH) for providing tamper-proof diploma certificates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an effort to counter the rise in document forgery, the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Development (MSBSD) goes against India\u2019s crypto ban narrative to use Ethereum-based public blockchain. In an exclusive statement with Cointelegraph, LegitDoc CEO Neil Martis highlighted that while the certificates are verified using the traditional manual methods, MSBSD will start advocating only the digital verification method for all the manual verification requests year.<\/p>\n

Showcasing interest from other local government authorities, Martis added:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an active work order from the Govt of Karnataka (Dept of Information Technology<\/a> and Biotechnology). We are in talks with the Government of Telangana (school education dept) and Higher & Technical education dept of Maharashtra to implement LegitDoc for their student community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mainstream institutions such as the National Institute of Technology (Surathkal) and Ashoka University are in talks to implement a similar solution for countering the ongoing forgery of documents, Martis said.<\/p>\n

The partnership with LegitDoc places India among early adopters to implement an e-governance system for education with the\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Malta\u00a0and Singapore. <\/p>\n

Citing blockchain\u2019s capability in curbing the frauds related to document forgery, Chairman of MSBSD Dr. Anil Jadhao pointed out:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last 10 years, there has been a rampant increase in forgery of government-issued documents which have caused huge financial & reputational losses to the stakeholders involved.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related: MIT Professor Asserts Blockchain Technology Is Not as Secure as Claimed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Following up on MIT\u2019s implementation of the tamper-proof blockchain diploma, Cointelegraph reported Prof. Stuart Madnick\u2019s point of view that blockchain comes with its unique set of challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a word of caution, Madnick opined,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is that while the blockchain system represents advances in encryption and security, it is vulnerable in some of the same ways as other technology, as well as having new vulnerabilities unique to blockchain. In fact, human actions or inactions still have significant consequences for blockchain security.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n