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Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD) and the three R's of Key Management

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith; Vishal Gupta · 2018-04-26 · checked 2026-10-14

A Rebooting the Web of Trust VI white paper proposing decentralized autonomic data (DAD), self-identifying, self-certifying and self-securing data items tied to DIDs, and setting out minimally sufficient methods for key reproduction, rotation and recovery. Its basic pre-rotation scheme is an early form of the pre-rotation later used in KERI. For implementers of identity and streaming-data systems.

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