TITLE:
Towards a New Model for the Production of Civil Status Records Using Blockchain
AUTHORS:
Tankou Tsomo Maurice Eddy, Bell Bitjoka Georges, Ngohe Ekam Paul Salomon
KEYWORDS:
Blockchain, Forgery, PKI, Civil Status, Documentary Identity
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Information Security,
Vol.14 No.1,
January
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: The work presented in this article focuses on document forgery. Document
fraud is a generic term used to designate a fraud, a falsification of a
document. The said falsification can be observed in several sectors of everyday
life. For a better illustration, let’s consider a system for producing civil
status forms. The birth certificate is generally the basis of any individual’s
life, and if this document is falsified, it can have repercussions at several
levels, particularly in the academic field, where false diplomas, false
national identity cards, false passports,
false marriage certificates, etc. are obtained. It is therefore demonstrated that a secure production unit for civil status forms can be beneficial to both
developed and developing countries. In addition, smart contract is proposed
using a private Hyperledger fabric blockchain for validation of civil status
documents, and a non-state public key management infrastructure is also
proposed to authenticate the nodes that will validate the transactions. This
improved blockchain solves the problem of falsification of civil status
documents, as false nodes can contribute to the validation of a transaction.
The contribution of such a hybrid system is of paramount importance for the
identity of civil status documents on the one hand and for the identity of
documents in general, and
the blockchain to guarantee the distributed, unforgeable, non-repudiation,
transparency and disintermediation character.