An Innovative Approach of Verification Mechanism for both Electronic and Printed Documents

Abstract

Documents are inevitably relevant in our day-to-day life. Forgery of document could have severe repercussions including financial losses, misjudgments, damage of respect, goodwill, etc. Hence, documents need to be secured from threats such as counterfeiting, falsification, tempering etc., and there should be an easy way of verification about the originality of documents. There are several existing methods for ensuring authenticity and integrity with modern technologies like the block chain, Digital Signature, etc. Most of the methods are not appropriate for public usage instantly due to their intricacy, excessive costing, and implementation problem for which the easy approach of verification is yet not available for mass people. In this situation, a method of document verification has been proposed in this paper which intends to provide (i) authenticity, (ii) integrity, (iii) availability, and (iv) non-repudiation. The proposed method will serve the purpose of mass people as it has no licensing fee, easily implementable and effortlessly useable for both electronic and printed documents. It is worth to mention that the proposed method will provide a mechanism to confirm the originality of the document using only a Smartphone in no time.