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10 Decentralized key management

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Maintainer: Dr. Sam Smith (chapter author); Manning Publications Co. (publisher) · 2020-10 · checked 2026-10-14

Chapter 10, 'Decentralized key management', from a Manning book on self-sovereign identity (SSI), written by Sam Smith and posted as a 38-page pre-production manuscript. It covers why key management is hard, conventional standards, roots of trust, decentralized key management, ledger-based and peer DID methods, and closes with a section summarizing KERI's architecture, for readers new to the subject.

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