Secured Question Paper Management System
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Apr 15, 2021
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Blockchain; Digital Signature; Hash; Encryption; Decryption; OTAC; Randomization.
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The examination is one of the essential parts of the student’s life. After learning from an institution, the students must attend and pass various types of examinations to get their certificates. In this process, sometimes students try to pass the examination by answering the leaked questions. From the beginning of making the question papers to delivering them to the students is now at stake in the existing question management system due to question leakage. So, the traditional way of managing the question papers needs to be changed so that it can stop the leakage of question papers. To secure the question papers and making a trustworthy, physical existence free, and affordable a system is proposed in this paper. To design this model, we have used the concept of Blockchain, Digital Signature, Randomization, OTAC.
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S. M. T. Rahman, M. N. Iftekhar, R. Alam, S. M. R. Gafur, and D. Nandi, “Secured Question Paper Management System”, AJSE, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 25 - 32, Apr. 2021.
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[39] K. Vijayakumar and C. Arun, "Continuous security assessment of cloud based applications using distributed hashing algorithm in SDLC," 2017 Cluster Computing, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 10789-10800, Available: 10.1007/s10586-017-1176-x.
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[41] J. Kishigami, S. Fujimura, H. Watanabe, A. Nakadaira and A. Akutsu, "The Blockchain-Based Digital Content Distribution System," 2015 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, Dalian, 2015, pp. 187-190, doi: 10.1109/BDCloud.2015.60.
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[43] S. Ølnes and A. Jansen, "Blockchain Technology as s Support Infrastructure in e-Government," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 215-227, 2017. Available: 10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_18.
[44] A. K. Shrivastava, C. Vashistth, A. Rajak and A. K. Tripathi, "A Decentralized Way to Store and Authenticate Educational Documents on Private Blockchain," 2019 International Conference on Issues and Challenges in Intelligent Computing Techniques (ICICT), GHAZIABAD, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICICT46931.2019.8977633.
[45] A. Azaria, A. Ekblaw, T. Vieira and A. Lippman, "MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access and Permission Management," 2016 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD), Vienna, 2016, pp. 25-30, doi: 10.1109/OBD.2016.11.
[46] F. Aloul, S. Zahidi and W. El-Hajj, "Two factor authentication using mobile phones," 2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Rabat, 2009, pp. 641-644, doi: 10.1109/AICCSA.2009.506