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Navigating the Crossroads of Legacy and Innovation in Self-Sovereign Identifier Solutions

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Maintainer: Henk van Cann (Happy Blockchains, Medium) · 2024-03-20 · checked 2026-10-14

An opinion article comparing OpenID Connect (OIDC), as a bearer-token system built on public key infrastructure, with KERI, and arguing against hybrid designs that use KERI as an identity provider for OIDC. It introduces unbounded-term identifiers, pre-rotation and graduated disclosure and frames the choice as an ethical one, for decision makers.

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Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.