HOLA!! Indian Government Adopting Cryptocurrency

The Maharashtra government recently announced that it is working with LegitDoc, India's first blockade, to issue diploma certificates that tamper with evidence. The announcement comes shortly after reports that the country's government is using the Polygon Network to track the results of RT-PCR tests.

As computer graphics improve, it becomes easier to make paper-based papers. Naturally, this is a problem for authorities where most procedures are performed with manual verification - which is often a very good basis.

Solutions like the state DigiLocker are the right approach. However, these are built on a central structure - which means there is one point of failure, no matter how secure. The past few weeks have been full of headlines on how black hat hackers have used this weakness to get user information.

To combat the growing scam, the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Development (MSBSD), and LegitDoc, are using the Ethereum blockchain to create a validation system. Once available, the program will allow them to issue diploma certificates that violate the evidence.

How does LegitDoc work?

There is official technology behind LegitDoc, as their website proudly states. The startup uses a patent-filed, related algorithm built into Ethereum to extract and validate documents.

1. Certificate documents are first produced as PDFs by the output body.
2. The entire PDF is provided with unique ‘fingerprints’ by LegitDoc
3. For most certificates, a single abridged fingerprint is produced
4. This single fingerprint was uploaded to Ethereum Blockchain against the issuer public key
5. A unique Ethereum-based Proof file is created with each PDF.
6. Once this is done, the original PDF file and the accompanying proof file are merged into the LegitDoc zip file.

These files can now be shared externally, and are matched to a verification portal to verify their authenticity.

What does this mean for India?

Interestingly, this relationship goes hand in hand with the anti-crypto sentiment we have seen earlier this year.

In a special statement with Cointelegraph, LegitDoc CEO Neil Martis said

“We have an operating system from the Government of Karnataka (Department of Information Technology and Biotechnology). We are in talks with the Telangana Government (department of school education) and the Department of Higher Education and Technology in Maharashtra to implement LigitDoc in their student community. ”

Major private institutions, such as NIT Surathka and Ashoka University are also considering implementing similar solutions, adds Martis

If this pattern continues, we will see India placed as the first developer of a fully dedicated e-governance system.

As we’ve seen with Chainlink and Polygon, real blockchain apps are here to stay!