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Decentralized Self-certifying Self-Identifing Data

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · 2017-10-27 · checked 2026-10-15

A 2017 white paper on representing data items that carry their own self-certifying decentralized identifier (DID) and signature, covering HTTP signature headers, change detection, intelligent defaults and the four R's of key management, including an early description of key pre-rotation. Predates KERI.

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