1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing, by an officially verifiable electronic representation (OVER) file verifying device, an OVER file stored on an OVER file client device, the OVER file comprising: a virtual representation of the credential that has been verified by an issuing agency to be an official representation of a credential of a user for proving the user's identity or qualifications, based on information associated with the credential of the user; the OVER file generated by an OVER engine configured to: store the information associated with the credential of the user; and transmit the generated OVER file to the OVER file client device; transmitting, by the OVER file verifying device, to the OVER engine, a verifying request to verify that the OVER file accessed from the client device authenticates the user; receiving, by the OVER file verifying device, an authentication message comprising an indication of whether the scan associated with the OVER file on the device of the user corresponds to the information associated with the credential of the user that is stored in the OVER engine; and outputting a status indicator expressing whether the OVER file authenticates the user.