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The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI. Part 2: What exactly is KERI?

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Maintainer: Nuttawut Kongsuwan (published in Finema's Medium publication) · 2024-03-16 · checked 2026-10-14

The second part of the series, explaining KERI's essential components without deep technical detail: KERI as an identity overlay for the internet, autonomic identifiers as persistent self-certifying identifiers, pre-rotation, key events and key event logs, receipts and the direct and indirect modes. It is for newcomers moving from the why to the what.

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