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Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC)

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · 2021-01-14 · checked 2026-10-14

Samuel M. Smith's 2021 white paper defining authentic chained data containers (ACDCs) as authentic data containers carrying authentic provenance chains, for data supply chains and rich authorization. It evaluates whether the W3C Verifiable Credential standard could be extended to serve as the concrete implementation and how ZCAP-LD compares, and works through a purchasing-authorization use case. Background on the origins of ACDC rather than the current specification.

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