Raonsecure to Pilot Mutual Authentication of Digital Certificates Between Korean and Japanese Universities, Aiming to Build Global Trust Infrastructure

Tomokatsu Tamura, Head of the Topan Business Innovation Center (left), and Taejin Kim, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Raonsecure, took a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement. Provided by Raonsecure

On July 9, Raonsecure, an AI security and authentication platform company, announced that it will participate in a pilot project to build a cross-border digital certificate mutual authentication system in collaboration with Chung-Ang University, Japan’s Toppan, and Soka University.

Raonsecure stated that the four organizations have signed a business agreement to conduct a proof-of-concept for cross-border digital certificates based on Verifiable Credentials (VC).

Toppan, established in 1900, is a company conducting business in information, lifestyle, and electronic products, as well as in digital identity authentication, security, data utilization, and digital transformation (DX).

This agreement was initiated to build a digital trust system that allows student-related certificates issued by universities to be submitted and verified safely across borders. Raonsecure and Toppan plan to jointly conduct a proof-of-concept for a mutual authentication system that applies VC-based digital certificate issuance and verification technologies to student exchanges between Korean and Japanese universities.

For example, when a Chung-Ang University student participates in an exchange program at Soka University, they can receive transcripts, certificates of completion, and course records in digital form through Raonsecure’s blockchain-based digital identity and credential platform, "OmniOne Digital ID." Soka University then verifies these certificates using Toppan’s credential platform. Conversely, when a Soka University student participates in an exchange at Chung-Ang University, the same mutual authentication of digital certificates takes place in the same manner.

Chung-Ang University is already using OmniOne Digital ID to issue and manage major academic certificates—such as admission, transcript, and graduation certificates—in digital form. The company noted that this pilot project is significant in that it expands an already operational digital certificate system into a mutual authentication environment between Korea and Japan.

Through this project, the four organizations will comprehensively verify the interoperability between Korean and Japanese credential platforms, legal and institutional challenges for cross-border digital certificate utilization, issuance-submission-verification procedures at universities, technical improvements and security systems, and the potential for global service expansion.

The company expects that this pilot will allow universities to establish a mutual authentication system for digital certificates without having to overhaul existing academic systems on a large scale. It also expects that administrative procedures required for international student exchanges—such as paper certificate issuance, translation, and notarization—will be significantly streamlined.

Raonsecure plans to use this agreement as a springboard to accelerate its entry into the global digital identity authentication market, including Japan, and to expand the overseas presence of its "OmniOne Digital ID"-based credential platform. Furthermore, the company will broaden the application of its DID technology, already used in domestic mobile identification, to certificate verification between universities, thereby strengthening reliability and anti-forgery systems in the overseas education market.

Toppan aims to expand the environment for cross-border certificate verification based on its digital identity authentication and security technologies, while Chung-Ang University and Soka University will cooperate to advance digital administrative models for student exchanges.

Taejin Kim, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Raonsecure, said, "Digital certificates are a next-generation digital trust infrastructure that safely stores individuals’ trust information and allows instant verification when needed. Through this pilot, we will validate a global digital trust model connecting Korea and Japan, and in the future, we will expand the global digital credential ecosystem to sectors beyond education, including administration and finance."

By conducting this mutual authentication pilot for digital certificates between Korean and Japanese universities, Raonsecure aims to build cross-border digital trust infrastructure and expand the global digital identity authentication market.

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