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Leveraging Blockchain as a Solution for Security Issues and Challenges of Paperless E-Governance Application

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DigiLocker, a government of India initiative, provides a free platform to the citizens of India to store and access important personal documents. This platform is implemented by using various open source technologies to deliver a mass solution and contributes back to the ever-growing Indian community. DigiLocker is a weapon for paperless E-governance. It is a platform to issue and verify all types of certificates and documents digitally. Thus gradually eliminate the use of physical documents. In this paper, we have proposed a framework to secure individual information using secured verification method of blockchain-based validation technique. The proposed framework ensures proper validation and verification with a unique hash key. Additionally, Argon2 encryption mechanism is used for securing the hash key in the proposed framework. This will enable a timeline for visibility of the uploaded documents by any authorized person/organization and reduce fraudulent use of documents.

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

    Ambica Sethy & Abhishek Ray

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Himansu Das

  2. School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

  3. School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Siddharth Swarup Rautaray

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

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Sethy, A., Ray, A. (2020). Leveraging Blockchain as a Solution for Security Issues and Challenges of Paperless E-Governance Application. In: Das, H., Pattnaik, P., Rautaray, S., Li, KC. (eds) Progress in Computing, Analytics and Networking. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1119. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2414-1_65

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