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Identity System Essentials

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith (Evernym); Dmitry Khovratovich (Evernym) · 2016-03-29 · checked 2026-10-14

A 2016 white paper from Evernym describing the essential characteristics of an identity system that provides sovereignty, security and privacy, and defining identity from what such a system provides. It covers attribute exchange, least disclosure, cryptonymous identifiers, identity graphs, sovereignty, Byzantine fault tolerant ledgers and degrees of transaction privacy. It predates KERI and is background on the ideas it grew from.

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