# IDStack -- The Common Protocol for Document Verification built on   Digital Signatures

**Authors:** Chanaka Lakmal, Sachithra Dangalla, Chandu Herath, Chamin, Wickramarathna, Gihan Dias, Shantha Fernando

arXiv: 1901.01883 · 2021-11-16

## TL;DR

This paper introduces IDStack, a protocol utilizing digital signatures and text extraction to verify digital documents' authenticity efficiently, addressing a key challenge in digital data management.

## Contribution

The paper proposes a novel common protocol, IDStack, for document verification that combines digital signatures with text extraction and correlation scoring.

## Key findings

- IDStack effectively verifies digital documents' authenticity.
- The protocol offers advantages over existing verification methods.
- It enhances data management efficiency and security.

## Abstract

The use of physical documents is inconvenient and inefficient in today's world, which motivates us to move towards the use of digital documents. Digital documents can solve many problems of inefficiency of data management but proving their authenticity and verifying them is still a problem. This paper presents a solution for this problem using text extraction, digital signatures and a correlation score for a set of documents. The paper discusses the impacts and advantages of the proposed technologies against other possible technologies that could serve the same purpose.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1901.01883