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Universal Identifier Theory

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. · 2025-09-14 · checked 2026-10-14

A 40-page white paper presenting a unified model of identifiers in which cryptographic autonomic identifiers (AIDs) provide trust domains that legitimize human-meaningful identifiers (LIDs), expressed as the aid|lid couplet. It covers trust bases, separable roots of trust, key rotation versus statement revocation, multi-valent key management, promulgation, verifiable credential issuance and verifiable algorithms for LID issuance, for identifier system designers.

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