New generation of digital academic-transcripts using encrypted QR code™: Use of encrypted QR code™ in mark-sheets (academic transcripts)

Today, because of ever growing digital data, it is very important to optimize these data and preserve them in an eco-friendly manner. In this paper, the author presents a new method to digitize the academic transcript i.e. mark-sheets, and embed the digital format in the mark-sheet itself in the form of encrypted QR Code™, so that the digital data can not be retrieved by any unauthorized user. In this way, we can save a lot of digital space, which was necessary to save those digital academic records of each student. In our new marksheet system, the digital data, which is embedded in the marksheet in form of encrypted QR code, can only be retrieved and decrypted using our own web-application, which is hosted in our website. Our new mark-sheet system introduces a new generation of digital academic transcripts, which is already under implementation in our St. Xavier´s College [Autonomous], Kolkata, India, and till now the implementation results and success of the system have been remarkable.