resources

254 rows where evidence = "informative" sorted by date descending

✎ View and edit SQL

This data as json, CSV (advanced)

Suggested facets: last_checked, recording, since, via, has_summary, kind, sector, country, last_checked (date), date (date), pushed (date)

year 12

level 4

evidence 1

  • an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite · 254 ✖
id type name url maintainer status last_checked date ▲ year level evidence access abstract authors series chair minutes recording media decisions version language license release pushed depends since via summary note has_abstract has_summary kind sector country products
kerione-verifiable-voice-protocol Specifications and glossaries specification Verifiable Voice Protocol https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hardman-verifiable-voice-protocol/ Daniel Hardman (Provenant, Inc.) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-10-05 2026 normative an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An individual Internet-Draft (not adopted or endorsed by the IETF) defining the Verifiable Voice Protocol (VVP), which authenticates and authorizes organizations and individuals making or receiving telephone calls. A caller's signed passport travels in a SIP INVITE through STIR and cites a dossier of evidence built as ACDCs issued by KERI identifiers; the draft gives the roles, the passport fields and the verification algorithm. For implementers in telecommunications and verifiable calling. Daniel Hardman (Provenant, Inc.)             draft-hardman-verifiable-voice-protocol-08             keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources Verifiable Voice Protocol specifications/verifiable-voice-protocol   1 1        
keri-value-system-visualisation Documentation and education sites site KERI value-system visualization (an interactive graph, Henk van Cann) https://blockchainbird.github.io/KERI-value-system-visualisation/ Henk van Cann (source: https://github.com/henkvancann/KERI-value-system-visualisation) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-11-05 2026-08-15 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An interactive weighted graph of the values behind KERI, with clips from KERIConf 2026 talks attached to each node. The repository was last pushed 15 August 2026; read 21 October 2026. Henk van Cann                                 1 0        
hardman-building-active-discovery Papers and paper collections paper Building Active Discovery https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/active-discovery.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-08-12 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A guidance paper by Daniel Hardman describing how to build privacy-preserving discovery that requires the active participation of the party being sought, from existing architectures: split blind matching modeled on double-blind trials, Tor v3 onion services for rendezvous, verifiable attestations of the seeker, and provisional anonymity. It recommends KERI with ACDCs for the attestations and states what the design does not deliver. For designers of privacy-preserving discovery and identity systems. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
kerione-sustainable-privacy Papers and paper collections paper Sustainable Privacy https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/SustainablePrivacy.pdf Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-08-11 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 15-page white paper arguing that privacy over time needs economic, legal, regulatory and technical protections together, since K-anonymity de-identification and selective disclosure are defeated by re-identification attacks. It describes a contextual linkability re-identification attack on selective disclosure and proposes chain-link confidentiality and data loyalty, for readers concerned with privacy design and policy. Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D.             v1.2.8 (original 2023-09-18)             keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources Sustainable Privacy research/papers/kerione-sustainable-privacy   1 1        
papers-new-default-logic-for-unary-edge-operators Papers and paper collections paper New Default logic for Unary Edge Operators https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/New%20Default%20logic%20for%20Unary%20Edge%20Operators.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-08 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short discussion opener proposing changes to the default logic for unary edge operators in Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs), because non-delegative use cases that arose in work toward SEDI (State Endorsed Digital Identity) make the current global defaults cumbersome. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-acdc-ipex-negotiation-md Papers and paper collections paper ACDC IPEX Negotiation (working notes, markdown) https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDC_IPEX_Negotiation.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-08 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Working design notes, longer and later than the PDF of the same name, on negotiating graduated disclosure of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) under the Issuance and Presentation Exchange (IPEX) protocol: attribute path lists against a composed schema, closure rules by section, new unary edge operators, presentation registries, anchored exchange diagrams and an SEDI (State Endorsed Digital Identity) example. For implementers of ACDC and IPEX. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
hardman-the-shape-of-delegated-authority Papers and paper collections paper The Shape of Delegated Authority https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/sda.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-07-11 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 paper by Daniel Hardman proposing a model of delegated authority that makes the category of a delegate's act machine-checkable (by telos, effect and kind of state) and lets a stranger verify authority without consulting its issuer. It argues that access control, action taxonomies and decentralized identity each keep only part of what the law of agency long held together, and draws on KERI and ACDC mechanisms for identity and verification. It is for architects of authorization for human and AI agents. Daniel Hardman             1.2             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers The Shape of Delegated Authority research/papers/hardman-the-shape-of-delegated-authority   1 1        
hardman-opaque-identifier-aliases Papers and paper collections paper Opaque Identifier Aliases https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/oia.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-07-09 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 primer by Daniel Hardman on aliases, the private labels people attach to opaque cryptographic identifiers such as keys, DIDs and KERI autonomic identifiers (AIDs). It explains the properties an alias must have, why the COIA naming convention helps, and why a proved binding must never be confused with a guessed one, pointing to entviz for comparing identifiers by eye. It is for designers of wallets and identity software. Daniel Hardman             0.10             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Opaque Identifier Aliases research/papers/hardman-opaque-identifier-aliases   1 1        
hardman-identity-facets Papers and paper collections paper Identity Facets https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/if.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-07-09 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 primer by Daniel Hardman arguing that identity is about sameness across time and across the facets of a life, that the sameness across facets should be visible only to its owner, and that facets are minted by relationships. It explains why organizational capacity (signing as citizen or as CEO) determines liability, why credentials have an affinity for a facet, and why opaque identifiers per facet need naming and visual verification tools. Daniel Hardman             0.11             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
papers-acdc-ipex-negotiation Papers and paper collections paper ACDC IPEX Negotiation https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDC_IPEX_Negotiation.pdf Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded 2026-10-15 2026-07 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Working design notes on negotiating graduated disclosure of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) under the Issuance and Presentation Exchange (IPEX) protocol, using a composed schema identifier as type and attribute path lists, with clarifications on the issuee field in aggregate ACDCs and open questions on presentation registries for SEDI (State Endorsed Digital Identity). For implementers of ACDC and IPEX. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers ACDC IPEX Negotiation research/papers/papers-acdc-ipex-negotiation   1 1        
hardman-measuring-the-glance-an-adversarial-estimate-of Papers and paper collections paper Measuring the Glance: An Adversarial Estimate of Habituated Perceptual Entropy in entviz and SSH Randomart https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/m-glance.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-06-22 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 paper by Daniel Hardman estimating, from an attacker's side, how many bits a habituated glance at an entviz figure or an SSH randomart image actually checks, using a certified reimplementation of the renderer and a grinder that counts the hashing work to forge each channel. It reports a curve rather than a single figure and states that all perceptual tolerances are modeled, not measured on people. It is for designers of human verification of keys and identifiers. Daniel Hardman             1.3             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
hardman-amplifying-difference-perceptual-design Papers and paper collections paper Amplifying Difference: Perceptual Design and Verification of Human-Centric Entropy Visualizations https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/amp-diff.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-06-22 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 paper by Daniel Hardman analyzing entviz, an algorithm that renders a high-entropy value such as a key fingerprint as layered perceptual channels so an untrained person can tell whether two values match. It sets out a channel-by-channel perceptual-entropy budget, distinguishes human-centric authentication visualization from machine perceptual hashing, and proposes a commit-and-reveal comparison walk, noting that the budget is an analytic estimate. It is for designers of key and identifier verification. Daniel Hardman             1.3             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
papers-revocation Papers and paper collections paper Revocation https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/Revocation.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-06-13 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A white paper exploring design trade-offs for dynamic revocation of verifiably issued digital entitlements in SEDI (State Endorsed Digital Identity), comparing bare attached signatures with anchors in verifiable data structures, framing goals of citizen control, control over value and privacy, and proposing bulk issuance with per-issuance registries. For policy makers and architects of government digital identity. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)             0.4             SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Revocation research/papers/papers-revocation   1 1        
papers-keri-last-best-hope-ai-world Talks and presentations talk KERI: The last best hope for individual-controlled digital ID in an AI world https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_AI_Cyber_2026.pdf Samuel M. Smith (KERI Foundation) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-06 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 26-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith of the KERI Foundation, from 2026, framed by a Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies' statement on frontier AI. It contrasts AI-based, tracking-derived digital identity with Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) based identity and poses discussion questions on human authority over AI, identity, resilience after breach, privacy and deployment speed, for a general and policy audience. Samuel M. Smith (KERI Foundation)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers KERI: The last best hope for individual-controlled digital ID in an AI world research/papers/papers-keri-last-best-hope-ai-world   1 1        
hardman-progressive-assurance-flexible-organizational Papers and paper collections paper Progressive Assurance: Flexible Organizational Identity in the Digital Economy https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/prog-a.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-05-05 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 paper by Daniel Hardman proposing a Progressive Assurance Model for organizational identity: four levels of control assurance (LoA 0 to LoA 3) built on one KERI identifier and one ACDC credential schema, bridging X.509 certificates and the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI). It compares the model with X.509, platform badges and STIR/SHAKEN and treats ACDCs as foundational evidence and SD-JWTs as derivative presentations. It is for people designing or choosing organizational identity. Daniel Hardman             0.9             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Progressive Assurance: Flexible Organizational Identity in the Digital Economy research/papers/hardman-progressive-assurance-flexible-organizational   1 1        
csgwest-proving-who-you-are-2026-05 Articles, press releases and opinion article Proving Who You Are: How Utah Built the Nation's First Digital Identity Framework, Centered on Privacy (CSG West, 1 May 2026) https://csgwest.org/2026/05/01/proving-who-you-are-how-utah-built-the-nations-first-digital-identity-framework-centered-on-privacy/ CSG West (the Council of State Governments) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-16 2026-05-01 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An interview-based account for Western state legislators of how Utah's program was built and governed, with its sponsor and its chief privacy officer. For the political history and the list of who was in the room. Jonathan Lennartz, with Rep. Paul Cutler and Christopher Bramwell                                 1 0        
startupfortune-cardano-academy-keri Articles, press releases and opinion article Cardano Academy wants businesses to understand digital identity before they need it (Startup Fortune) https://startupfortune.com/cardano-academy-wants-businesses-to-understand-digital-identity-before-they-need-it/ Startup Fortune changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-21 2026-05-01 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A third-party announcement of the Cardano Academy's free, self-paced course on digital identity and KERI, aimed at developers and business leaders and using Veridian as the live reference. Read 21 October 2026.                                   1 0        
herbert-shaping-utahs-digital-future-2026-05 Articles, press releases and opinion article Shaping Utah's Digital Future: A Summary of Key 2026 Session Legislation (Herbert Institute, May 2026) https://www.uvu.edu/herbertinstitute/docs/web_shaping_utahs_digital_future.pdf Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy, Utah Valley University no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-16 2026-05 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A plain-language brief from the Office of Data Privacy's academic partner on Utah's 2026 digital identity and data privacy legislation: what S.B. 275 creates and requires, and the companion bills. For a legislator or newcomer who wants the statute summarized by a neutral hand. Reese Boardman (research assistant) with David R. Connelly                                 1 0        
kerione-data-protection-missed-the-point-loyalty-gets-it-rig Articles, press releases and opinion article Data Protection Missed the Point; Loyalty Gets It Right https://www.technometria.com/p/data-protection-missed-the-point Phil Windley changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-04-30 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A blog post on Phil Windley's Technometria arguing that privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA regulate personal data when they should govern the relationships that give data meaning. Drawing on a Samuel M. Smith session at the Internet Identity Workshop and Hartzog and Richards's "Legislating Data Loyalty," it frames a duty of loyalty, presents Utah's State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation as embodying it, and proposes MyTerms agreements to make it operational. Phil Windley                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
kerione-a-day-in-your-life-with-keri Tutorials and posts tutorial A Day in your Life with KERI https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/blog/a-day-in-your-life-with-keri Nicholas Racz (Key State Capital; Trust over IP steering committee) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-04-22 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust blog post that follows one person through a day (a verified phone call, a doctor's visit, signing a regulatory filing, recovering a stolen phone) to illustrate KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) in use. It explains dossiers combining credentials from independent issuers, selective disclosure and pre-rotated keys, refers to governance frameworks such as GLEIF's vLEI, and notes Trust over IP's approval of the KERI, ACDC and CESR specifications on 21 January 2026. It presents itself as an illustrative scenario, not a product announcement. Nicholas Racz (Key State Capital; Trust over IP steering committee)                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
kerione-why-a-new-prescription-is-needed-for-healthcare-s-ch Articles, press releases and opinion article Why a new prescription is needed for healthcare's chronic trust problem https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/articles/why-a-new-prescription-is-needed-for-healthcares-chronic-trust-problem Jared Jeffery (CEO, healthKERI) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-04-06 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An opinion article in Health Data Management arguing that legacy trust tools such as digital certificates and OAuth leave gaps in cross-organizational health data exchange. Using the post-2008 Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system as a precedent, it presents the verifiable LEI (vLEI), a credential built on KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure), as an alternative, and says groups including CARIN Alliance and DirectTrust are evaluating it. Jared Jeffery (CEO, healthKERI)                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
papers-acdcs-delegable-authorization-evac Talks and presentations talk ACDCs for Delegable Authorization: Solving broken delegation chain problems; EVAC, Agentic AI, and yet more bulk issuance https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/AuthorizationEVAC.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-04 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 59-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on using Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) for delegable authorization, including control of AI agents. It presents Edge Verifiable Access Control (EVAC) with issuance and usage registries, reversion of delegation, blinded registries and bulk issuance, and the TSP (SPAC) protocol's ESSR message and tunnels. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-bulk-issuance-privacy Talks and presentations talk Bulk Issuance: Balancing security of perpetually verifiable issuances with correlation risk for privacy protection https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/BulkIssuancePrivacy.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-04 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 48-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on bulk issuance of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs): how an issuer can give a holder many unlinkable copies of a credential while keeping each one verifiable against the issuer's key state. It covers blindable state registries, Sparse Merkle Tree anchoring for herd privacy, graduated and contractually protected disclosure, and the IPEX exchange protocol, for implementers and designers of credential systems. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Bulk Issuance: Balancing security of perpetually verifiable issuances with correlation risk for privacy protection research/papers/papers-bulk-issuance-privacy   1 1        
papers-bulk-issuance-data-loyalty Talks and presentations talk Bulk Issuance Context Management: Self-enforcing Data Loyalty https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/BulkIssuanceSynergyDataLoyalty.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-04 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 65-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith linking the legal duty of data loyalty to Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC) bulk issuance and context management. It covers relationship-based enforcement, blinded registries, identity assurance, Sparse Merkle Tree age predicates, IPEX, graduated and contractually protected disclosure, and a survey of surveillance and privacy law. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-cryptoperiod-catastrophe Talks and presentations talk Cryptoperiod Catastrophe: Misapplication of bare signatures/anon-signatures to non-ephemeral verifiable credential https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/CryptoperiodCatastrophe.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-04 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 29-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith arguing, from the cryptoperiod concept in NIST SP 800-57, that bare or anonymous signatures are misapplied to long-lived verifiable credentials and entitlements. It covers key exposure risk, closed and open loop entitlement verification, identity attack statistics for 2024, and the case for issuances anchored to rotatable key state. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
hardman-what-does-telco-need-requirements-for-organizational Papers and paper collections paper What Does Telco Need? Requirements for Organizational Identity Evidence https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/telco-ev-reqs.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-03-11 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2026 position paper by Daniel Hardman setting out requirements for an evidence layer for organizational identity, authority and accountability in telecommunications. It proposes five essential properties and an appendix of detailed requirements, non-goals and evaluation questions, as a fair test for candidate architectures rather than a comparison of them. For standards participants, operators and regulators evaluating proposals. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers What Does Telco Need? Requirements for Organizational Identity Evidence research/papers/hardman-what-does-telco-need-requirements-for-organizational   1 1        
papers-keri-request-authentication-mechanism-kram Specifications and glossaries specification Keri Request Authentication Mechanism (KRAM) https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/kram.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-03 2026 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A working design document for KRAM, a non-interactive method of authenticating requests signed with a KERI identifier's current key state, protecting against replay with datetime stamps and timeliness caches. It covers simple KRAM, as implemented in keripy, and a redesigned full KRAM with multi-signature support, cache types, databases and processing logic. For keripy implementers. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)             0.7.6             SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Keri Request Authentication Mechanism (KRAM) research/papers/papers-keri-request-authentication-mechanism-kram   1 1        
hardman-who-is-signing Papers and paper collections paper Who Is Signing? https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/who-sign.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-02-07 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short 2026 analysis by Daniel Hardman arguing that the question of who is signing rarely has one answer, because signatures sit where keys, delegation, intent, governance and accountability meet. It offers a lifecycle view (issuers, subjects, delegated signers), notes that multisignature identifiers can make governance inspectable, and ends with a richer set of questions for verifiers. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Who Is Signing? research/papers/hardman-who-is-signing   1 1        
hardman-signing-doesnt-always-claim-authorship Papers and paper collections paper Signing Doesn’t Always Claim Authorship https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/sign-author.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-02-07 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short 2026 analysis by Daniel Hardman questioning the assumption, common in decentralized identity, that a digital signature claims authorship. It gives everyday counterexamples, sets out what a digital signature does and does not prove, and draws a practical lesson for specifications and verifiers. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
kerione-sedi-and-client-side-identity Articles, press releases and opinion article SEDI and Client-Side Identity https://open.substack.com/pub/windley/p/sedi-and-client-side-identity Phil Windley changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2026-02-04 2026 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A Technometria blog post arguing that client-side SSL certificates of the mid-1990s were technically sound but failed because individuals would not pay for identity proofing. It presents Utah's State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) as changing that economics, since the state can use its existing driver's license process to issue high-assurance digital identities, and argues user-held, state-backed credentials could replace passwords and centralized identity silos. Phil Windley                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
hardman-comparison-acdcs-and-merkle-tree-certificates Papers and paper collections paper Comparison: ACDCs and Merkle Tree Certificates https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/acdc-and-mtc.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2026-01-06 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A paper by Daniel Hardman comparing Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs), with the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI), and Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a proposed evolution of the web public key infrastructure (WebPKI). It is organized by function: what each commits to and proves, freshness and revocation, operational cost, post-quantum readiness and standardization. It states that it is not a bake-off and is written for readers fluent in one of the two worlds. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Comparison: ACDCs and Merkle Tree Certificates research/papers/hardman-comparison-acdcs-and-merkle-tree-certificates   1 1        
papers-acdc-affordances-confidential-data-protection Papers and paper collections paper ACDC Affordances for Confidential (Sensitive) Data Protection and Management https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDCConfidentialDataManagement.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2026-01 2026 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short working paper arguing that data shared over the internet should be managed under established confidential-data practices rather than the label of privacy, and that the graduated disclosure mechanisms of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) support those practices. It sets out a three-party model of data sharing and ends with draft notes on bulk issuance using blinded sparse Merkle trees. For readers working on data governance and credential design. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers ACDC Affordances for Confidential (Sensitive) Data Protection and Management research/papers/papers-acdc-affordances-confidential-data-protection   1 1        
hardman-authenticity-vs-veracity Papers and paper collections paper Authenticity vs. Veracity https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/authenticity-vs-veracity.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-12-28 2025 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short 2025 analysis by Daniel Hardman distinguishing authenticity (truth of origin) from veracity (truth of content) in philosophy, law and digital identity, and arguing they must be treated as independent. It credits Samuel M. Smith and the KERI community for emphasizing the distinction in the KERI, ACDC and did:webs specifications, and notes that authenticity can be computed while veracity rests on reputation. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
hardman-analysis-of-did-cel-heartbeat-relevance-to-keri Papers and paper collections paper Analysis of did:cel Heartbeat: Relevance to KERI https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/heartbeat-and-witnesses.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-12-20 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A short 2025 analysis by Daniel Hardman of the heartbeat mechanism in the did:cel DID method, a periodic controller signature against retrograde (history-rewriting) attacks, and of whether KERI needs one. It concludes that KERI's pre-rotation and witness-based duplicity detection already cover the threat while allowing cold, offline keys. It is for readers comparing DID methods with KERI. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Analysis of did:cel Heartbeat: Relevance to KERI research/papers/hardman-analysis-of-did-cel-heartbeat-relevance-to-keri   1 1        
hardman-a-primer-on-keri-acdcs-and-cesr Papers and paper collections paper A Primer on KERI, ACDCs, and CESR https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/keri-primer.html Daniel Hardman changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2025-12-19 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An introductory paper by Daniel Hardman that explains the three layers of the KERI suite: Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) for identifiers and key state, Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) for verifiable data, and Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) for encoding. It starts from the weaknesses of administrative public key infrastructure (PKI) and walks through each layer's mechanisms with worked examples. Written for engineers and technically literate readers new to the suite. Daniel Hardman             1.2             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers A Primer on KERI, ACDCs, and CESR research/papers/hardman-a-primer-on-keri-acdcs-and-cesr   1 1        
hardman-intent-and-boundaries-a-framework-for-digital-agency Papers and paper collections paper Intent and Boundaries: A Framework for Digital Agency https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/intent-monograph.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-12-11 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2025 paper by Daniel Hardman defining a model of intent and introducing intent boundaries, the points where an observer's knowledge of an actor's purpose becomes inadequate, with four design principles (recognize, move, peek across, never sneak across). It draws on bioethics, psychology and design theory and is aimed at system designers, particularly of agentic AI. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
hardman-syntelos-a-hierarchical-taxonomy-of-intent Papers and paper collections paper Syntelos: A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Intent in Digital Interactions https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/syntelos.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-12-11 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2025 paper by Daniel Hardman proposing Syntelos, a hierarchical, machine-readable taxonomy of the intent (telos) of interactions, rooted in shared outcomes and drawing on Activity Theory and commitment protocols, for constraining delegation and negotiating interactions between human and AI agents. It surveys existing standards (industry and commodity codes, agent communication languages, Schema.org, privacy vocabularies, IEEE 7012) and proposes top-level categories such as /relate, /share, /trade and /govern. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
lfdt-keri-and-key-deck Papers and paper collections paper KERI and Key: how I learned to stop worrying and love the log (LF Decentralized Trust deck) https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/hubfs/KERI%20and%20Key%20(1).pdf LF Decentralized Trust (author not on the file) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-21 2025-11-26 2025 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A slide deck motivating KERI through global fraud, zero trust and certificate transparency, with GLEIF's use as the example; the first slides were read on 21 October 2026.                                   1 0        
hardman-acdcs-and-w3c-vcs-lossless-vs-lossy Papers and paper collections paper ACDCs and W3C VCs: Lossless vs. Lossy https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/acdc-vc-diff.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-11-24 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An article by Daniel Hardman comparing Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) with the W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC) data model through an analogy to lossless and lossy media formats. It names six kinds of information it says VCs discard and ACDCs keep, describes where lossy formats fit, and cites the vLEI system and the Verifiable Voice Protocol as production uses. For architects choosing a credential format. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers ACDCs and W3C VCs: Lossless vs. Lossy research/papers/hardman-acdcs-and-w3c-vcs-lossless-vs-lossy   1 1        
papers-acdc-static-age-predicate-proof-smt Papers and paper collections paper ACDC with Static Age Predicate Proof SMT https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDC_AgePredicate_SMT.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-11-07 2025 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A design paper proposing a proof-of-age mechanism for Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) using a precomputed, static sparse Merkle tree (SMT) of age predicates held in the holder's wallet, as an alternative to blindable state registries or unlinkable zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) predicate proofs, which it argues prevent detection of issuer key compromise. It covers SMT construction, the full suite of age predicates, usage and social engineering attacks. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)             1.7             SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-sedi-policy-and-technology-trade-space Talks and presentations talk SEDI Policy and Technology Trade Space: Comprehensive Solutions vs. Incremental Solutions https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SEDI_Tradeoff.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-10-01 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 207-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2025/10/01, subtitled "How to best protect citizens from exploitation with citizen-sourced, state-endorsed digital identity". It sets out the security and privacy trade-offs for SEDI (state-endorsed digital identity) and argues for KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) and ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) anchored issuances over unlinkable signature schemes. For policy makers and practitioners. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers SEDI Policy and Technology Trade Space: Comprehensive Solutions vs. Incremental Solutions research/papers/papers-sedi-policy-and-technology-trade-space   1 1        
papers-security-threats-mitigations-sedi Talks and presentations talk Security Threats & Mitigations for Persistent State Issued Citizen Entitlements (SEDI): trade-space walk through https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SecurityThreatsMitigationsSEDI.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-10-01 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 234-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2025/10/01 on its title slide (the PDF was created in January 2026), walking through threats to a state system that issues long-lived citizen entitlements and the mitigations KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) and ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) offer. It extends the "SEDI Policy and Technology Trade Space" deck with threat statistics, signing-infrastructure attacks and proof-of-age options. For policy makers and practitioners. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Security Threats & Mitigations for Persistent State Issued Citizen Entitlements (SEDI): trade-space walk through research/papers/papers-security-threats-mitigations-sedi   1 1        
kerione-keris-strategy-for-post-quantum-security Papers and paper collections paper KERI's Strategy for Post-Quantum Security https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KeriStrategyPostQuantumSecurity.pdf Daniel Hardman (Provenant); Sam Smith, PhD (Prosapien) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2025-10 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A ten-page white paper explaining how KERI addresses two quantum threats: a surprise quantum attack on signing keys, met by pre-rotation behind hash digests, and harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks on confidentiality, left to the application layer through out-of-band key exchange or hybrid key encapsulation. It places this within NIST's post-quantum timeline and argues for crypto-agility, for decision makers and practitioners. Daniel Hardman (Provenant); Sam Smith, PhD (Prosapien)                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources KERI's Strategy for Post-Quantum Security research/papers/kerione-keris-strategy-for-post-quantum-security   1 1        
papers-security-deep-dive-keri-necessary-and-sufficient Talks and presentations talk Security Deep Dive: Why KERI is Necessary and Sufficient https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_SecurityDeepDive.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-10 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 76-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, undated on its title slide (the PDF was created in October 2025), arguing that every part of KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) is needed to defend against a known set of attacks. It walks through the KERI ecosystem components, key compromise and recovery, delegation, and the trust-basis and spanning-layer background. For practitioners and implementers. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Security Deep Dive: Why KERI is Necessary and Sufficient research/papers/papers-security-deep-dive-keri-necessary-and-sufficient   1 1        
kerione-keri-white-paper Papers and paper collections paper Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) Design https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KERI_WP_2.x.web.pdf Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2025-09-14 2025 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public The founding white paper for KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure), now at version 2.63, presenting self-certifying autonomic identifiers, key pre-rotation, key event logs and witnessed receipts as a decentralized key management infrastructure and candidate trust spanning layer for the internet. It covers the theory, event semantics, operational modes, witness agreement, derivation codes and serialization in 142 pages, for readers who want the full design rationale. Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D.             v2.63 (original 2019-07-03)             keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) Design research/papers/kerione-keri-white-paper   1 1        
kerione-universal-identifier-theory Papers and paper collections paper Universal Identifier Theory https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/IdentifierTheory_web.pdf Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2025-09-14 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public 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. Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D.             v1.40 (original 2020-10-20)             keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources Universal Identifier Theory research/papers/kerione-universal-identifier-theory   1 1        
papers-keri-alphaomega-2025 Talks and presentations talk Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: An Identity System Security Overlay for the Internet, A Trust Spanning Layer for the Internet https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_AlphaOmega.20250903.pdf Samuel M. Smith changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-15 2025-09-03 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 57-slide overview deck by Samuel M. Smith, dated 2025-09-03 in its file name, covering Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) from first principles: the secure attribution problem, trust bases, autonomic identifiers and pre-rotation, duplicity detection, the KERI ecosystem, Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) registries, and the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP). It lists the specifications and the adoptions the author names, for newcomers and practitioners. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: An Identity System Security Overlay for the Internet, A Trust Spanning Layer for the Internet research/papers/papers-keri-alphaomega-2025   1 1        
papers-seven-privacies-ugly-baby-pageant Talks and presentations talk The Seven Privacies: Ugly Baby Pageant. The privacy equivocation mind virus https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SevenPrivacies.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-09 2025 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 53-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on equivocation in the words private, confidential and authentic, the legal history of privacy (Entick 1765, US law), three-party information leakage, and the limits of ZKP-based (zero-knowledge proof) unlinkability, arguing for sustainable privacy. Backup slides cover KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) basics. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-acdc-examples Papers and paper collections paper Examples https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/Examples.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-09 2025 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A collection of worked Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC) examples in JSON: a composed schema supporting compact and uncompacted private ACDCs, compact public and private ACDCs, and edge section examples (two edges, nested edge groups, compact public edge sections) with a summary of default edge operators. For ACDC implementers. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
hardman-the-evidence-lifecycle-in-telco Papers and paper collections paper The Evidence Lifecycle in Telco https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/ev-life.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-08-07 2025 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An article by Daniel Hardman on how evidence about a business is created, assembled and used in telecommunications calls: identity, phone-number rights, brand rights and delegation credentials, collected into a dossier. It follows a business-to-consumer call under the Verifiable Voice Protocol (VVP). For readers in telecommunications new to verifiable evidence. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
papers-tsp-cesr-implementation-details Specifications and glossaries specification TSP CESR Implementation Details https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/TSP_CESR_Implementation.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-07 2025 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A technical proposal for encoding Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) wrappers and payloads as Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) primitives and groups: open and closed modes for verifiable identifiers, the head, body and tail of the wrapper, hop and relationship formation payloads, and a proposed table for tunneling KERI and ACDC messages. For TSP and CESR implementers. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers TSP CESR Implementation Details research/papers/papers-tsp-cesr-implementation-details   1 1        
hardman-intent-and-boundaries Papers and paper collections paper Intent and Boundaries https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/intent-boundaries.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-06-20 2025 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2025 article by Daniel Hardman on intent in digital systems, setting out a mental model of intent and boundaries and four principles: recognize boundaries, consider moving rather than crossing them, consider peeking across them, and never sneak across them. It argues that respecting these boundaries preserves user agency and trust. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
papers-keri-architectures-for-group-issuance-kagi Papers and paper collections paper KERI Architectures for Group Issuance (KAGI) https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KERIArchGroupIssuance.md Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2025-02 2025 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A design discussion of architectures for issuing Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) from groups of controllers with the KERI stack, centered on group multi-signature identifiers, the KERI Request Authentication Method (KRAM) and the Issuance and Presentation Exchange (IPEX) protocol. It recommends implementing full KRAM and describes agent-delegated negotiation, anchoring instead of signing, and joint issuance. For implementers of keripy and related libraries. Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author)                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers KERI Architectures for Group Issuance (KAGI) research/papers/papers-keri-architectures-for-group-issuance-kagi   1 1        
papers-hio-hierarchical-async-coroutines Talks and presentations talk HIO: Hierarchical Asynchronous Coroutines & I/O https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/Hio.web.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-09 2024 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 104-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on HIO, a model of hierarchical asynchronous coroutines and non-blocking I/O, and on flow-based programming. It covers asynchronous processing approaches, dependency inversion, data flow routing, hierarchical state and the author's earlier control-systems work. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
hardman-bytewise-and-externalized-saids Papers and paper collections paper Bytewise and Externalized SAIDs https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/bes.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-08-01 2024 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2024 paper by Daniel Hardman defining two algorithms that extend CESR self-addressing identifiers (SAIDs) to arbitrary files treated as byte streams: one embeds the SAID at a delimited insertion point in the file, the other places it in a file name constrained by an instruction inside the file. It gives ABNF and regex syntax, a threat model, and a pointer to a Python reference implementation, and is for implementers bringing documents and media into authenticated data graphs. Daniel Hardman             1.6             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Bytewise and Externalized SAIDs research/papers/hardman-bytewise-and-externalized-saids   1 1        
vleida-why-we-like-cesr-1 Articles, press releases and opinion article Why we like CESR 1: There will be a lot of cryptography in the future https://vleida.substack.com/p/why-we-like-cesr-1-there-will-be The vLEIDA Newsletter no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-11-02 2024-07-22 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A vLEIDA newsletter post of July 2024, the first in a series on why its authors like CESR, on the expectation of many more cryptographic primitives in the future. Charles Alexander Lanahan                           KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine kerisse     1 0        
vancann-keri-is-not-complex Articles, press releases and opinion article KERI is not complex or complicated. Instead, it simplifies. https://medium.com/@hvancann/keri-is-not-complex-or-complicated-instead-it-simplifies-da285b20a7db Henk van Cann no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-11-02 2024-07-12 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An article of July 2024 by Henk van Cann arguing that KERI simplifies rather than complicates, starting from the difference between complex and complicated. Henk van Cann                           KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine kerisse     1 0        
papers-keri-live-appraisal-key-compromise Talks and presentations talk Live Appraisal of Key Compromise via Duplicity Evident Infrastructure: How to protect verifiers (and controllers) from imposters without blockchain and trusted third parties https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_Appraisal.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-07 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 33-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith relating Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) to risk assessment and appraisal, with reference to the IETF Remote Attestation Procedures (RATS) working group. It defines static and dynamic appraisability, and covers end verifiability, duplicity, witnesses and watchers, KEL-anchored credential registries, trust bases, and a mortgage-signing use case. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
hardman-zooko-and-houdini-a-flatland-parable Papers and paper collections paper Zooko and Houdini: A Flatland Parable https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/zh.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-06-20 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A primer by Daniel Hardman that uses a Flatland parable to argue that Zooko's triangle (an identifier can be at most two of secure, decentralized and human-friendly) dissolves once human-friendliness is treated as local to each user, like entries in an address book. It recommends discovering identifiers through attributes people choose and resolving to secure, decentralized identifiers when a protocol runs. For readers thinking about identifier naming and usability. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
hardman-the-coming-tsunami-of-falsehood Papers and paper collections paper The Coming Tsunami of Falsehood https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/ctf.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-06-01 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A guidance letter by Daniel Hardman warning that artificial intelligence will amplify deception through deep fakes, targeted scams and automated character assassination. It recommends that individuals become careful truth-hearers and truth-tellers, prove the authenticity of their communications, value reliable sources and clarify what they know. Written for a general audience; it does not discuss KERI. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
papers-duplicity-evident-data-dice-2024 Talks and presentations talk Duplicity Evident Data: How to protect verifiers (and controllers) from imposters without blockchain and trusted third parties https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_DuplicityDICE2024.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-06 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 22-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on how KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) makes key state duplicity evident, so verifiers can detect imposters without a blockchain or trusted third party. It covers end verifiability, autonomic identifiers, pre-rotation, duplicity, KEL-anchored credential registries, ecosystem components (witnesses, watchers, agents) and delegation. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-security-architectures-issues-dice-2024 Talks and presentations talk Security Architectures Issues: Zero-Trust Trust Domains, Roots-of-trust models: EUID ARF 1.4 and KERI https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_Security_DICE2024.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-06 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 38-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith comparing roots-of-trust models in the EU digital identity ARF (Architecture and Reference Framework) 1.4 and KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure). It covers the secure attribution problem, administrative, algorithmic and autonomic trust bases, the LEI and vLEI, flaws of DNS/CA PKI, zero-trust architectures and pre-rotation. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-cesr-iiw-2024a Talks and presentations talk CESR: Composable Event Streaming Representation for CESR/KERI/ACDC/SPAC-TSP Protocol Stack and other Cryptographically Agile and Cryptographically Heavy Protocols https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/CESR_20_IIW2024A.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-04-17 2024 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 28-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, dated 2024-04-17 and filed as given at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) in spring 2024, explaining Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) 2.0. It covers the case for a composable dual text and binary encoding, the code tables and parsing rules, annotated streams, size comparisons with JSON, CBOR and MessagePack, and uses in archives, legal signatures and audit trails, for implementers. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers CESR: Composable Event Streaming Representation for CESR/KERI/ACDC/SPAC-TSP Protocol Stack and other Cryptographically Agile and Cryptographically Heavy Protocols research/papers/papers-cesr-iiw-2024a   1 1        
papers-cesr-performance Papers and paper collections paper CESR Performance https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/CESR_Perf.md Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2024-04-14 2024 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Working notes titled CESR Performance by Samuel M. Smith: fragments comparing key encodings (JWK and COSE examples) and a function and example for annotating and de-annotating Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) streams, shown on a KERI version 2 inception event. For CESR implementers. Samuel M. Smith             0.0.1             SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
kerione-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-3 Tutorials and posts tutorial The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI. Part 3: How do you use KERI? https://medium.com/finema/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-3-how-do-you-use-keri-2d1724afa432 Nuttawut Kongsuwan (published in Finema's Medium publication) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2024-04-13 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public The third part of the series, an implementer's reading and tooling guide: which papers and introductory materials to read, the four ToIP specifications (KERI, ACDC, CESR, did:webs) plus SAID and OOBI, the WebOfTrust open-source projects (KERIpy, Signify, KERIA, the browser extension), the KLI command line and building applications with Signify and KERIA. It is for people starting to build with KERI. ["Nuttawut Kongsuwan (published in Finema's Medium publication)"]                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
kerione-keri-innovation-vs-legacy Articles, press releases and opinion article Navigating the Crossroads of Legacy and Innovation in Self-Sovereign Identifier Solutions https://medium.com/happy-blockchains/navigating-the-crossroads-of-legacy-and-innovation-in-self-sovereign-identifier-solutions-d7724f157283 Henk van Cann (Happy Blockchains, Medium) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2024-03-20 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An opinion article comparing OpenID Connect (OIDC), as a bearer-token system built on public key infrastructure, with KERI, and arguing against hybrid designs that use KERI as an identity provider for OIDC. It introduces unbounded-term identifiers, pre-rotation and graduated disclosure and frames the choice as an ethical one, for decision makers. Henk van Cann (Happy Blockchains, Medium)                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
kerione-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-2 Tutorials and posts tutorial The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI. Part 2: What exactly is KERI? https://medium.com/finema/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-2-what-exactly-is-keri-e46a649ac54c Nuttawut Kongsuwan (published in Finema's Medium publication) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2024-03-16 2024 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public 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. ["Nuttawut Kongsuwan (published in Finema's Medium publication)"]                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
ubisecure-understanding-vlei-keri Articles, press releases and opinion article Understanding vLEI and the use of KERI architecture (Ubisecure) https://www.ubisecure.com/legal-entity-identifier-lei/understanding-vlei-keri-architecture/ Ubisecure (Petteri Stenius) changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-21 2024-01-04 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An explainer covering the Signify, agent, witness and verifier roles, the key event log, pre-rotation, delegation, multisig and the vLEI trust chain. Read 21 October 2026. Petteri Stenius                                 1 0        
kerione-enhancing-security-user-centered-auth-keri Papers and paper collections paper Enhancing Security in User-Centered Authentication Using KERI https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/pdp/2024/630700a161/1Wa9T07An0k B. Boi; M. De Santis; C. Esposito no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2024 2024 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative needs a free account or membership (a wiki login, a Discord invite) account An academic conference paper in the IEEE proceedings of PDP 2024 (DOI 10.1109/PDP62718.2024.00030) that, according to its abstract, examines integrating KERI into self-sovereign identity (SSI) to make user-centric authentication more resilient without a blockchain, since the keys used to generate proofs are not exchanged. The full text was not read. B. Boi; M. De Santis; C. Esposito                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        
toip-tsp-mid-year-2023 Articles, press releases and opinion article Mid-Year Progress Report on the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/08/31/mid-year-progress-report-on-the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/ Trust over IP Foundation no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-11-02 2023-08-31 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A Trust over IP blog post of August 2023 reporting progress on the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP), opening with verifiable identifiers as the first of its topics.                             KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine kerisse     1 0        
kerione-spac-presentation Talks and presentations talk SPAC (Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality) https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SPAC_Overview.web.pdf Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2023-06-17 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 79-slide deck, subtitled 'Privacy Given Strongest Authenticity and Confidentiality', that presents the SPAC white paper: the PAC theorem, the three-party exploitation model, ESSR-based authenticated encryption, relationship and intermediary protocols, sustainable privacy and threat mitigations. It is for readers who want the SPAC argument in slides before the long paper. Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D.                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources SPAC (Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality) research/papers/kerione-spac-presentation   1 1        
papers-spac-privacy-strongest-authenticity-confidentiality Talks and presentations talk SPAC (Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality): Privacy Given Strongest Authenticity and Confidentiality https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SPAC_Strawman.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-06-17 2023 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 76-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2023/06/17 presenting SPAC (Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality), a strawman protocol design that starts from the PAC theorem and ToIP (Trust over IP) design goals. It covers strong authenticity and IND-CCA2 confidentiality, ESSR (encrypt sender, sign receiver) messages, relationship graphs, direct and intermediated protocol forms, and privacy threats. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
papers-sustainable-privacy-slides Talks and presentations talk Sustainable Privacy: How to stop information leaks from sinking the ship https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SustainablePrivacySlides.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-06-17 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 101-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2023/06/17, companion to his Sustainable Privacy white paper, on the gradual leakage of shared personal data, the weakness of k-anonymity and bare selective disclosure against re-identification, and contractually protected disclosure with chain-link confidentiality. Later slides cover the SPAC protocol material. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2023-05-18 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #18, 2023-05-18 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-05-18 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Agenda only; no notes recorded: a KERIde and CESRide storage interface for accessing KELs (key event logs) and TELs (transaction event logs).   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)                       KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2023-05-11 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #17, 2023-05-11 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-05-11 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Recognition of Jason Colburne for completing CESRide, a proposal to repurpose the call as a weekly KERI dev call with the KERI and ACDC spec calls focused on standards, Parside PRs 2 and 5, and moving CESR into a KERIde repository. Discussion weighed the advantages and risks of a monorepo and noted that graduated disclosure is an application-level concern.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)   KERIde starts as a monorepo; CESRide to be archived with a notice once the work is ported to KERIde               KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
hardman-big-desks-and-little-people Papers and paper collections paper Big Desks and Little People https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/bdlp.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-05-01 2023 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A position paper by Daniel Hardman arguing that common architectural patterns in digital trust, such as client-server APIs and business process workflows, entrench a power imbalance between institutions ('big desks') and individuals ('little people'). It asks that decentralized identity designs let individuals take part in trusted interactions without being clients of institutional servers. For architects and governance designers in decentralized identity. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2023-04-27 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #16, 2023-04-27 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-04-27 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Creder code added to cesride issue 147 with KERIpy tests to port, a possible 0.6.0 release, and a review of the IIW whiteboarding session on the split between cesride, parside and signifide, with a proposed set of Rust modules (veride, parside, eventide, acdcide, cesride, signifide) and a dependency diagram. Participants noted that CESR attachments and nested counters are the hardest part to learn and recommended starting from the KERIpy parsing code.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2023-03-30 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #14, 2023-03-30 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-03-30 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Status of secp256r1 (the curve in hardware security modules and the Apple Secure Enclave, timely for GLEIF) and secp256k1, both now using randomized signatures, and of release 0.4.0 with WebAssembly (WASM) bindings. Also the FFI (foreign function interface) direction toward PyO3 and running KERIpy tests on CESRide, the paused Parside PRs and where Creder belongs among CESRide, Parside and Signifide, a working CESR parser in Elixir, and a planned whiteboarding session at IIW (Internet Identity Workshop).   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
kerione-secure-privacy-authenticity-and-confidentiality-spac Papers and paper collections paper Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality (SPAC) https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/SPAC_Message.md Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. changed within the last six months, or a live service active 2026-10-14 2023-03-25 2023 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A white paper, in Markdown on GitHub, that sets out the PAC (privacy, authenticity, confidentiality) trilemma and designs messaging protocols that give the best privacy possible given the strongest authenticity and confidentiality, using KERI autonomic identifiers and a modified ESSR (Encrypt Sender, Sign Receiver) construction. It covers threat models, relationship formation, intermediaries, interaction contexts and a CESR encoding, and is aimed at protocol designers. Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D.             0.5.3             keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources Secure Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality (SPAC) research/papers/kerione-secure-privacy-authenticity-and-confidentiality-spac   1 1        
devfocus-2023-03-16 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #13, 2023-03-16 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-03-16 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Error handling with the anyhow crate, randomized secp256r1 signatures versus deterministic Ed25519, and zeroization of private keys, salts and base64 buffers; CESRide was at release 0.3.0. Also a report that QUI integrated CESRide behind PyO3, the two open Parside PRs, the FFI (foreign function interface) pause and porting of KERIpy tests, a milestone report on CESR primitives, and a top-down discussion of the decentralized applications KERI suits.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
papers-toip-tsp-proposal-2023-03-08 Talks and presentations talk ToIP Trust Spanning-layer Protocol (TSP) Proposal: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/TSPSlides20230308.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-03-08 2023 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 97-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith proposing, for ToIP (Trust over IP), that the trust spanning layer be an identifier system security overlay built on KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) autonomic identifiers. The file is named for 8 March 2023 but its title slide keeps the 2023/02/08 date of the earlier 61-slide version. For specification contributors and implementers. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers ToIP Trust Spanning-layer Protocol (TSP) Proposal: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet research/papers/papers-toip-tsp-proposal-2023-03-08   1 1        
devfocus-2023-03-02 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #12, 2023-03-02 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-03-02 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Pausing the UniFFI-based FFI (foreign function interface) work while other options (Rust JNI, Swift Bridge) are examined, the language priorities of GLEIF and others, a note on the cryptographic libraries CESRide uses, and keeping Signifide code inside CESRide for now. Also discussed: release versioning with pre-release tags, and Petteri Stenius's JSON representation of the CESR code tables.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)       Version tagging adopted: alpha, beta and rc# pre-release tags, no tag for production (for example v0.2.0-alpha)               KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
papers-acdc-toip-data-presentation Talks and presentations talk Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC): Verifiable Data Structures (Graphs) that support Provenanced Authenticatable Attestations & Entitlements https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_ToIPDataPresent.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-03 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 28-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith presenting Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC), apparently to a Trust over IP (ToIP) group on data presentation. It covers ACDC structure and field labels, ACDCs as hash trees and graphs, vLEI credential examples, KERI-based verifiable data registries with Transaction Event Logs (TELs), and contractually protected disclosure. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2023-02-16 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #11, 2023-02-16 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-02-16 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Reviews of the parameterized-testing PR (rstest), the UniFFI bindings PR for Swift, Kotlin, Ruby and Python, and turning Matter into a trait, followed by a discussion of modularizing CESR code tables into a language-neutral abstraction (codes, sizes, hardage) and of unit versus behavioral tests. Existing CESR parsers from Provenant and Petteri Stenius were noted, and the group agreed the Parside interface needed defining.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
papers-toip-tsp-proposal-2023-02-08 Talks and presentations talk ToIP Trust Spanning-layer Protocol (TSP) Proposal: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/TSPSlides20230208.web.pdf {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded 2026-10-15 2023-02-08 2023 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 61-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2023/02/08 proposing to ToIP (Trust over IP) that the trust spanning layer be an identifier system security overlay, using the hourglass theorem and spanning-layer routing analysis. Earlier and shorter version of the March 2023 deck. {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'}                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2023-02-02 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #10, 2023-02-02 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-02-02 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Design of the FFI (foreign function interface) layer for CESR and the division of labor: Parside handles group and count codes and could load code tables dynamically or return an iterator, while CESRide handles primitives. Glossary entries were created for parside, cesride, strip-parameter, version-code, version-string and sniffer; review of Dmitry's code was postponed.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Recording linked from the notes (Google Drive)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2023-01-19 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #9, 2023-01-19 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-01-19 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Smith discussed the English semantic naming conventions behind KERIpy and the future of CESR: native CESR KERI events and ACDC field maps, new codes for lists, version strings and edge operators, refactored group codes for pipelining, and codes for encrypted ciphers, seeds and UDP envelopes. The call also set out the new architecture separating type mapping (CESRide) from parsing (Parside), how to contribute, and a formal vote on names and repositories.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)   Voice vote: CESRide and Parside adopted as the names of the Rust CESR primitive-mapping and parsing libraries; WebOfTrust CESR work to continue in two new repositories, cesride and parside; the CESRox repository to be archived               KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
hardman-sentries-confessionals-vaults-and-envelopes Papers and paper collections paper Sentries, Confessionals, Vaults, and Envelopes https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/svce.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-01-18 2023 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 2023 primer by Daniel Hardman that uses a medieval metaphor to distinguish four decentralized identity technologies often treated as rivals: OpenID Connect (OIDC), the Credential Handler API (CHAPI), Decentralized Web Nodes (DWNs) and DIDComm. It argues that they solve different problems and that interoperability work should draw boundaries between them rather than unify them. For people working in self-sovereign identity (SSI) and adjacent standards. Daniel Hardman             1.0             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers Sentries, Confessionals, Vaults, and Envelopes research/papers/hardman-sentries-confessionals-vaults-and-envelopes   1 1        
devfocus-2023-01-05 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #8, 2023-01-05 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2023-01-05 2023 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Repository naming (a poll in the CESR Slack channel and a live vote at the next call), licensing of the forked code, and contribution rules that avoid copying code between the repositories. Also an update from a conversation on KERIox (a database interface so it can use LMDB like KERIpy), Provenant's core-API design with a focus on the FFI (foreign function interface), and a plan to invite Smith to present CESR to the group.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)   The fork acknowledged: Apache 2.0 for WebOfTrust, EUPL 1.2 for THC Labs               KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
smith-security-in-keri-acdc Articles, press releases and opinion article Security in KERI/ACDC (HackMD note) https://hackmd.io/zku3Dn8qQeub_58Q1ivKLA?view Samuel M. Smith not checked, or the page gives no date unknown 2026-11-02 2023 2023 implementer an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A HackMD note by Samuel Smith titled Security in KERI/ACDC, filed by KERISSE among its quick notes and dated 2023. Samuel M. Smith                           KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine kerisse     1 0        
devfocus-2022-12-08 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #7, 2022-12-08 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-12-08 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Agenda only; no notes recorded: an update from Provenant shared in Slack, pull requests of the previous two weeks, and CESRox issues on an architecture diagram (#14) and test cases (#13), with more issues to be filed on what CESRox needs.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
hardman-actors-objects-and-linked-data Papers and paper collections paper Actors, Objects, and Linked Data https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/aold.html Daniel Hardman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-11-16 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A position paper by Daniel Hardman arguing that data about people is ethically special and that binding W3C Verifiable Credentials to Linked Data through a required @context grafts human subjects into a global semantic graph built for correlation. It recommends making @context optional, at least for credentials about people. For participants in verifiable credential standards. Daniel Hardman             1.1             Codecraft Papers (Daniel Hardman's paper archive) hardman-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2022-11-10 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #6, 2022-11-10 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-11-10 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Review of a draft CESROX presentation for the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), covering licensing, coordination with existing implementations and why not KERIpy, and an update on the THC repository: its encoding was made compatible with KERIpy and CESR was being prepared for removal from KERIox. Questions from van Cann covered the status of the keriox repository under WebOfTrust, the recommended order for reading its tests, and syncing glossary terms to the ACDC wiki.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2022-10-27 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #5, 2022-10-27 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-10-27 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Discussion of how to welcome beginner questions and of what counts as a proper KERI implementation, with van Cann's first draft of MUST, SHOULD and COULD criteria: MUST implement the KERI, ACDC, CESR, OOBI (Out-Of-Band Introduction) and SAID (Self-Addressing Identifier) drafts, all data formats, and witnesses and watchers; SHOULD support duplicity reconciliation by jurors. Two-week goals were reading KERIox tests and the Rust book.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2022-10-13 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #4, 2022-10-13 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-10-13 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Updates on studying CESR and KERIpy's coring module, resources on the nom parser-combinator library, and a pointer from a KERIox developer to the parsing loop in its tests. Planned next topics were a presentation on KERIpy's classes and how code tables are represented in Python, in KERIox, and should be in Rust.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)   Use the WebOfTrust keriox repository, since the Apache License is required               KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2022-09-29 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #3, 2022-09-29 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-09-29 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Discussion of CESR Proof Signatures and of a CESR type list and master code tables, with a recommendation that participants read all the specifications. Follow-ups assigned to the notes' author included publishing the type list, code-table spreadsheets and a fourth architecture diagram draft, getting the vLEI (verifiable Legal Entity Identifier) integration test script running, and setting up Rust-to-Python and Rust-to-Rust developer workflows; the page also adds a table of CESR-related glossary terms.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
papers-acdc-overview-w3c-tpac-2022 Talks and presentations talk Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC): Verifiable Data Structures (Graphs) that support Authenticatable Attestations & Credentials https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_Overview_W3CTPAC.web.pdf Samuel M. Smith no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-09-15 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public A 113-slide overview of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) by Samuel M. Smith, dated 2022-09-15 and filed for the W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC). It covers ACDC sections and field labels, chained ACDCs with GLEIF vLEI credential examples, graduated and contractually protected disclosure, the IPEX exchange protocol, the PAC theorem, and economic arguments about correlation and privacy. Samuel M. Smith                           SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers     1 0        
devfocus-2022-09-15 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #2, 2022-09-15 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-09-15 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Progress reports on reading the CESR specification published 25 August 2022 and on the architecture diagram, and a discussion of what to port first: participants favored the text representation for development and making CESROX use-case and schema agnostic. Next goals were a first unit test round-tripping raw, text and binary forms and an analysis of CESR changes in the KERIpy neo branch.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
devfocus-2022-09-01 Meetings (one per entry) meeting KERI Dev Focus Call #1, 2022-09-01 https://hackmd.io/@kentbull/ByTPAA51i Kent Bull (notes) no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-15 2022-09-01 2022 practitioner an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public Kickoff of the CESROX effort, a Rust implementation of CESR: who would consume it (KERIpy, KERIox, an ACDC Rust library, and a foreign function interface (FFI) layer for other ecosystems), a definition of a minimum viable product (MVP) as the full CESR specification in its text representation, with binary to follow, and design ideas such as code tables as extension points and a data-model-agnostic parser. Action items covered a dev branch, an architecture diagram, porting CESR code out of KERIox using the nom parsing crate, porting tests from KERIpy, and the open licensing question of consuming EUPL code into Apache 2.0.   kentbull-devcalls Kent Bull (notes)   Zoom recording linked from the notes (passcode required)                   KERI Dev Focus Call notes (HackMD) kentbull-devcalls     1 0        
kerione-self-sovereign-identity-can-do-just-fine-blockchain Articles, press releases and opinion article Self Sovereign Identity can do just fine, blockchain-less https://ksoeteman.nl/2022/08/self-sovereign-identity-can-do-just-fine-blockchain-less/ Krijn Soeteman no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet 2026-10-14 2022-08-19 2022 intro an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative anyone with the link public An article by science journalist Krijn Soeteman arguing that self-sovereign identity (SSI) does not need a blockchain. It explains KERI's self-certifying identifiers, key event logs, pre-rotation, delegation and witnesses for a general audience and contrasts them with ledger-based systems. Krijn Soeteman                           keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources     1 0        

Next page

Advanced export

JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited, object

CSV options: 

CREATE TABLE resources (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, type TEXT REFERENCES types(id), name TEXT, url TEXT, maintainer TEXT,
        status TEXT REFERENCES statuses(id), last_checked TEXT, date TEXT, year INTEGER, level TEXT REFERENCES levels(id),
        evidence TEXT REFERENCES evidence(id), access TEXT REFERENCES access(id), abstract TEXT, authors TEXT, series TEXT,
        chair TEXT, minutes TEXT, recording TEXT, media TEXT, decisions TEXT, version TEXT, language TEXT, license TEXT,
        release TEXT, pushed TEXT, depends TEXT, since TEXT, via TEXT REFERENCES resources(id),
        summary TEXT REFERENCES notes(path), note TEXT, has_abstract INTEGER, has_summary INTEGER,
        kind TEXT REFERENCES kinds(id), sector TEXT REFERENCES sectors(id), country TEXT, products TEXT);