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Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · 2021-04-23 · checked 2026-10-15

A 208-slide overview of Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) by Samuel M. Smith, version 2.60, dated 2021-04-23, from the period when KERI work was hosted at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). It covers the secure attribution problem, self-certifying identifiers, duplicity, trust bases, the unified identifier model, KERI stacks and delegation, with links to the KERI implementations of that time.

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