Post-Quantum-Ready Prototype for Standardized Certificate Creation and Verification Model

Certificate forgery is a major problem in academic, professional, governmental, and industrial domains. Classical digital signature algorithms like RSA and ECC are weak against emerging quantum attacks which compromises the authenticity and integrity of the documents. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a Standardized Post-Quantum-Ready Prototype for Certificate Creation and Verification using NIST-approved CRYSTALS-Dilithium2 post-quantum digital signature algorithm. Furthermore, each physical certificate has QR code which links to its corresponding digital version, enables the authenticity and integrity checks to all formats. Not limited only for certificates, can be applicable for all forms of document creation and verification.