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| kerione-utah-pro-human-ai-executive-order-2026-08 | Government and policy policy | Establishing Utah's Pro-Human Approach to Artificial Intelligence in State Government (Executive Order 2026-08) | https://governor.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026.10.06-Pro-Human-AI-Executive-Order-1.pdf | Spencer J. Cox, Governor of the State of Utah | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-06 | 2026 | practitioner | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | Utah Executive Order 2026-08, signed by Governor Spencer J. Cox on 6 October 2026, sets rules for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by state executive-branch agencies under the Pro-Human AI Initiative. It assigns duties to the Department of Government Operations, the Division of Technology Services and each agency, and directs that the State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) Framework be developed and used, where applicable, as the state's trust infrastructure for AI. It is for readers following state-level adoption of verifiable identity and credentials. | Spencer J. Cox, Governor of the State of Utah | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Establishing Utah's Pro-Human Approach to Artificial Intelligence in State Government (Executive Order 2026-08) research/papers/kerione-utah-pro-human-ai-executive-order-2026-08 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-from-keri-to-vlei-building-verifiable-organizational | Recordings and video recording | From KERI to vLEI: Building Verifiable Organizational Identity | https://youtu.be/su3gifwFW64 | Alexandre Kech (CEO, GLEIF), host; Samuel M. Smith (co-founder, KERI Foundation), guest | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-03 | 2026 | intro | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | Episode 13 of the GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation) Trust Talks series, about 42 minutes, in which GLEIF's CEO talks with Samuel M. Smith about KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure), the technology under the verifiable LEI (vLEI). Topics per the description include the cross-trust-domain transfer problem, building from the key management layer up, pre-rotation and post-quantum migration, delegation and recovery learned from the vLEI, GLEIF as root of trust, and adoption in telecommunications, healthcare, state-endorsed identity and AI agent authorization. | Alexandre Kech (CEO, GLEIF), host; Samuel M. Smith (co-founder, KERI Foundation), guest | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-advancing-trusted-calls-with-open-verifiable-calling | Articles, press releases and opinion article | Advancing trusted calls with Open Verifiable Calling at Microsoft | https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/advancing-trusted-calls-with-open-verifiable-calling-at-microsoft/ | Alyse Maguire (Microsoft Inside Track) | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 2026-06-18 | 2026 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A Microsoft Inside Track article describing how Microsoft's support organization adopted Open Verifiable Calling (OVC) so that calls from its contact center carry credentials attesting its right to the displayed number and brand and its legal identity. It names the OVC Alliance under GSMA Foundry, Provenant as signing service, and the Verifiable Voice Protocol. Microsoft's own account of its deployment. | Alyse Maguire (Microsoft Inside Track) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-open-verifiable-communications | Organizations organization | Open Verifiable Communications | https://ovcalliance.org/ovc | GSMA | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 2026-06-18 | 2026 | intro | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | The web page of Open Verifiable Communications (OVC), which it describes as a flagship project of the GSMA that defines how verifiable identity, authority and accountability can travel with communications such as calls. It states that the GSMA leads the project and that it is not owned or controlled by any single participant. For readers looking for the governance home of verifiable calling. | GSMA | v1.0 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | alliance | Telecommunications telecom | international | the Open Verifiable Communications alliance for verifiable calling | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-suite-of-protocol-specifications-final-lf | Articles, press releases and opinion article | KERI Suite of Protocol Specifications Final (LF Decentralized Trust post) | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lfdecentralizedtrust_decentralizedidentity-digitaltrust-keri-activity-7422391492561838081-uvzQ/ | LF Decentralized Trust | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | 2026-01-28 | 2026 | intro | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | A LinkedIn post by LF Decentralized Trust announcing that the KERI, Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) and Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) specifications from the Trust over IP (ToIP) KERI Suite Working Group had completed public review and were moving toward formal standardization. It describes CESR as the encoding layer, KERI as key management and ACDC as credentials, mentions the GLEIF vLEI and a GSMA calling demonstration as uses, and links the three specifications in its comments. | LF Decentralized Trust | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gsma-foundry-launches-open-verifiable-calling-projec | Articles, press releases and opinion article | GSMA Foundry launches Open Verifiable Calling project, building on proven live deployments to restore trust in global voice communications | https://www.gsma.com/get-involved/gsma-foundry/content-type/news/gsma-foundry-launches-open-verifiable-calling-project-building-on-proven-live-deployments-to-restore-trust-in-global-voice-communications/ | GSMA Foundry | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | 2025-11 | 2025 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GSMA Foundry news item announcing the Open Verifiable Calling (OVC) project, which attaches cryptographic proof of caller identity, brand rights and intent to voice calls, and explores adapting the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) governance model run by GLEIF for telecoms. It invites carriers, vendors and regulators to take part. Description drawn from search-result excerpts of GSMA pages, not from the page itself. | GSMA Foundry | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-state-endorsed-digital-identity-protecting-liberty | Government and policy policy | State-Endorsed Digital Identity: Protecting Liberty in the Digital Age | https://privacy.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/SEDI_ProtectingLiberty.pdf | Utah Department of Government Operations (PDF metadata author: Christopher Bramwell, Chief Privacy Officer) | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 2025-10-17 | 2025 | intro | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | A six-page paper (version 1.0, 17 October 2025) from the Utah Department of Government Operations that sets out State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI), a model in which the individual controls a cryptographic identifier and the state endorses, rather than creates, that identity. It lists the model's basic requirements (legal framework, individual control, privacy, parental rights and delegation, security, backward compatibility) and invites other states to join a SEDI Consortium. It is for policy makers and readers following state adoption of decentralized identity. | Utah Department of Government Operations (PDF metadata author: Christopher Bramwell, Chief Privacy Officer) | 1.0 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | State-Endorsed Digital Identity: Protecting Liberty in the Digital Age research/papers/kerione-state-endorsed-digital-identity-protecting-liberty | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-the-evidence-advantage-building-trust-for-a-new-era | Articles, press releases and opinion article | The Evidence Advantage: Building Trust for a New Era in Telecom | https://medium.com/@rwarshaw_99588/the-evidence-advantage-building-trust-for-a-new-era-in-telecom-7328fd3b8a65 | Randy Warshaw (Provenant) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2025-07-09 | 2025 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | The first of a seven-part Medium series arguing that telecom trust should rest on deterministic, cryptographically verifiable evidence rather than probabilistic analytics and reputation scores, and that such evidence strengthens existing fraud, compliance and analytics tools. Later parts in the series (one by Daniel Hardman) cover ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Containers), the vLEI, KERI and the Verifiable Voice Protocol, and Provenant's deployments. | Randy Warshaw (Provenant) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-why-we-like-keri | Articles, press releases and opinion article | Why We Like KERI | https://vleida.substack.com/p/why-we-like-keri | Charles Alexander Lanahan (vLEIDA Inc.) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2024-05-28 | 2024 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | The opening post of the vLEIDA newsletter (subtitle 'An Intro To Our Newsletter'), explaining what KERI is, why it is needed compared with certificate authorities and OAuth-style login, and the company's three theses about building products with KERI. It points readers to the ToIP working group and the WebOfTrust community, and is for newcomers and prospective business contacts. | Charles Alexander Lanahan (vLEIDA Inc.) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-eba-publishes-discussion-paper-on-the-centralisation | Articles, press releases and opinion article | EBA publishes discussion paper on the centralisation of EEA banks Pillar 3 disclosures in the EBA Pillar 3 data hub | https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/press-releases/eba-publishes-discussion-paper-centralisation-eea-banks | European Banking Authority (EBA) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2023-12-14 | 2023 | intro | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | The European Banking Authority's press release announcing its discussion paper on the Pillar 3 data hub, which would centralize prudential disclosures by European Economic Area banks. It notes that the paper covers the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI), developed by GLEIF, as a possible secure way for large institutions to submit data, and invited comments by 29 March 2024. | European Banking Authority (EBA) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-pillar-3-data-hub-processes-and-possible-practical-i | Government and policy policy | Pillar 3 Data Hub Processes and Possible Practical Implications (Discussion Paper EBA/DP/2023/01) | https://www.eba.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-12/d5b13b4d-a9dc-4680-8b7c-0a3a4c694fac/Discussion%20paper%20on%20Pillar3%20data%20hub.pdf | European Banking Authority (EBA) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2023-12-14 | 2023 | practitioner | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | A 65-page EBA discussion paper on how a central Pillar 3 data hub would receive, transform and publish banks' prudential disclosures. Section 6 presents the vLEI as an EBA use case for regulatory reporting, describing the vLEI trust chain built on KERI and ACDC, a Gartner study and an EBA-GLEIF proof of concept, and the EBA's initial conclusions. It is for readers looking for a regulator's own assessment of the vLEI. | European Banking Authority (EBA) | EBA/DP/2023/01 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-first-suite-of-vlei-services-to-enable-digital-signi | Articles, press releases and opinion article | First Suite of vLEI Services to Enable Digital Signing and Automated Verification of Corporate Caller IDs | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/first-suite-of-vlei-services-to-enable-digital-signing-and-automated-verification-of-corporate-caller-ids | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-12-14 | 2022 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF press release announcing public proof-of-concept trials of vLEI (verifiable Legal Entity Identifier) services provided by Provenant, the first newly qualified vLEI Issuer. The services cover credential and key management, digital signing and verification for organizations in business telecoms, aimed at curbing robocalls, spoofed caller IDs and fraudulent calls. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-simplifying-legal-entity-identification-digital-age | Recordings and video recording | Simplifying legal entity identification in the digital age | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/07/08/modern-digital-identity-challenges-video/ | Help Net Security; Karla McKenna (Managing Director, GLEIF); Philip Feairheller (Software Developer, GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-07-08 | 2022 | intro | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | A short Help Net Security video in which two GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation) staff explain the verifiable LEI (vLEI), a digital identity service built on the Legal Entity Identifier, and why organizations need a way to verify the authenticity of digital information and its sources. An introduction for a general security audience. | Help Net Security; Karla McKenna (Managing Director, GLEIF); Philip Feairheller (Software Developer, GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-options-to-improve-adoption-of-the-lei-cross-border | Government and policy policy | Options to Improve Adoption of the LEI, in Particular for Use in Cross-border Payments | https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P070722.pdf | Financial Stability Board (FSB) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-07-07 | 2022 | practitioner | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | A Financial Stability Board report to the G20 on options to widen adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), in particular for cross-border payments, drawing on a survey of member authorities, an outreach event and a GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation) survey. It mentions the verifiable LEI (vLEI), a digitally verifiable credential containing the LEI, as one of GLEIF's efforts that could encourage voluntary LEI adoption. For readers following the policy context of the vLEI. | Financial Stability Board (FSB) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-showcases-one-digital-id-for-every-business-gl | Articles, press releases and opinion article | GLEIF Showcases 'One Digital ID for Every Business Globally' with First Verifiable LEI Deployment | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/gleif-showcases-one-digital-id-for-every-business-globally-with-first-verifiable-lei-deployment | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-06-29 | 2022 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF press release reporting that GLEIF signed its 2021 annual report with verifiable LEI (vLEI) credentials, its first vLEI deployment. It describes how multiple vLEI signatures verify the report's contents while meeting official signing requirements, and presents the vLEI as a way to automate verification of business identity. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-annual-report-2021-ixbrl-viewer-vlei-signed | Documentation and education sites site | GLEIF Annual Report 2021 (iXBRL viewer, vLEI-signed) | https://www.gleif.org/assets/components/xbrl-viewer/gleif-annual-report-2021/ixbrl-report-2021-viewer.html | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-06 | 2022 | practitioner | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | GLEIF's 2021 annual report in an inline XBRL viewer, the document GLEIF signed with vLEI credentials as its first vLEI deployment. keri.one lists it as a demonstration of vLEI signing. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-cesr-overview-deck | Talks and presentations talk | CESR: Composable Event Streaming Representation | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/CESR_Overview.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-04-26 | 2022 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 22-slide deck introducing CESR (Composable Event Streaming Representation), the dual text and binary encoding for cryptographic primitives and groups used across the KERI suite. It covers the three domains (raw, compact binary, text), code tables, tritet parsing, the master code table, stream parsing rules, and uses in archiving, legal signatures and audit trails, for implementers. | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | CESR: Composable Event Streaming Representation research/papers/kerione-cesr-overview-deck | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-acdc-for-wizards | Talks and presentations talk | Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC): Verifiable Credentials with Stuff | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_Overview.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-04-26 | 2022 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 95-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, linked on keri.one as 'ACDC for Wizards', presenting ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Containers) features and field labels and the reasoning behind them: graduated disclosure, contractually protected disclosure, the PAC (privacy, authenticity, confidentiality) theorem, issuance models and KERI-based registries, and a long background section on OOBIs, BADA policy and discovery. For implementers who want the design rationale in detail. | Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC): Verifiable Credentials with Stuff research/papers/acdc-for-wizards | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-provisional-authenticity-and-functional-privacy | Articles, press releases and opinion article | Provisional Authenticity and Functional Privacy | https://www.windley.com/archives/2022/03/provisional_authenticity_and_functional_privacy.shtml | Phil Windley | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-03-14 | 2022 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A blog post by Phil Windley on the trade-off between privacy and authenticity, proposing provisional authenticity (identity revealed only when needed) and functional privacy, with confidentiality agreements that carry obligations forward to later recipients. For readers interested in the privacy reasoning behind contractually protected disclosure. | Phil Windley | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-and-trust-over-ip-foundation-publish-ecosystem | Articles, press releases and opinion article | GLEIF and Trust Over IP Foundation Publish Ecosystem Governance Framework for Digitally Verifiable LEI | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/gleif-and-trust-over-ip-foundation-publish-ecosystem-governance-framework-for-digitally-verifiable-lei | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-02-07 | 2022 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF press release announcing publication of the vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework with the Trust Over IP Foundation. The framework complements GLEIF's LEI governance, defines the operating model for vLEIs and describes how issuing stakeholders qualify for and perform their roles in the Global LEI System. The linked framework file is labeled v1.2. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-the-birth-of-the-vlei-a-new-dawn-in-digital-id-for-l | Articles, press releases and opinion article | The Birth of the vLEI: A New Dawn in Digital ID for Legal Entities Everywhere | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/blog/the-birth-of-the-vlei-a-new-dawn-in-digital-id-for-legal-entities-everywhere | Stephan Wolf (CEO, GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-02-07 | 2022 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF blog post by its then CEO introducing the verifiable LEI (vLEI) and tracing its development from early 2020. It describes the trust chain with GLEIF as root of trust, credentials issued through Qualified vLEI Issuers and built on KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure), and previews 2022 milestones: the governance framework with Trust Over IP, field trials of beta software, and the ISO 5009 standard for official organizational roles. | Stephan Wolf (CEO, GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-digital-identity-it-s-all-about-authenticity | Recordings and video recording | Digital Identity: It's All About Authenticity | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/gleif-podcasts/digital-identity-its-all-about-authenticity | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2022-02-07 | 2022 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF video page with a short summary on why organizations need stronger authentication and proof of data authenticity online. It presents the vLEI as a universal system for organizational identity and says the vLEI uses KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) to interoperate with blockchains, cloud services and APIs, with a video for more detail. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-acdc-slides | Talks and presentations talk | Authentic Chained Data Containers | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-07-19 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 40-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for the Trust Over IP Technical Working Group ACDC Task Force, version 1.05 of July 2021. It sketches an authentic data container as an attestation with source references, provenance chaining rules, issues with Linked Data, authenticity verification models and authorization properties. Early design material from the task force's start. | Samuel M. Smith | v1.05 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Authentic Chained Data Containers research/papers/acdc-slides | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-white-paper-slide-deck | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_Overview.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-04-23 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 208-slide overview deck (version 2.60) that accompanies the KERI white paper, covering the secure attribution problem, self-certifying identifiers, trust bases, delegation, verifiable data registries, event formats, witness agreement, security considerations and CESR encoding. It suits readers who want the white paper's argument in diagrams before reading the full paper. | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | 2.60 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet research/papers/kerione-keri-white-paper-slide-deck | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-q-a-basic-introduction-iiw-spring-2021 | Talks and presentations talk | KERI Q&A: basic introduction (IIW Spring 2021) | https://blockchainbird.org/downloads/KERI-QA-introduction.pdf | Henk van Cann | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-04 | 2021 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 15-slide deck by Henk van Cann prepared for questions and answers at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), spring 2021, giving a basic introduction to KERI: what it is, why and for whom, and four concepts to grasp first (no blockchain needed, duplicity detection, direct and indirect modes, pre-rotation). It also explains how to use the KERI Q&A on GitHub, which grades answers by reader level. For newcomers. | Henk van Cann | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-unveils-issuance-and-infrastructure-models-for | Articles, press releases and opinion article | GLEIF Unveils Issuance and Infrastructure Models for Verifiable LEI | https://www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/press-releases/gleif-unveils-issuance-and-infrastructure-models-for-verifiable-lei | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-02-11 | 2021 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF press release announcing the issuance and technical infrastructure models for the verifiable LEI (vLEI), a digital counterpart to the Legal Entity Identifier intended to let businesses verify each other's identity automatically. It is an early milestone in the vLEI's history. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keridemlia-a-discovery-mechanism-for-keri | Papers and paper collections paper | Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI | https://github.com/ryanwwest/papers/blob/master/whitepapers/keridemlia.pdf | Ryan W. West; Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-02 | 2021 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A paper by Ryan W. West and Samuel M. Smith describing Keridemlia, a prototype discovery service for KERI that maps autonomic identifiers (AIDs) to their witnesses' identifiers and witness identifiers to IP addresses, using the Kademlia distributed hash table (DHT). It covers the design, a four-endpoint HTTP API, verification of published data, and planned optimizations. For developers interested in locating KERI identifiers in indirect mode. | Ryan W. West; Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI research/papers/kerione-keridemlia-a-discovery-mechanism-for-keri | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-presentation-to-hyperledger-identity-wg-2021-01-20 | Events event | Presentation to Hyperledger Identity WG (2021-01-20) | https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/IWG/2021-01-20 | Samuel M. Smith (presenter); Vipin Bharathan (page author) | the maintainer says it is no longer maintained, or it redirects elsewhere retired | 2026-10-14 | 2021-01-20 | 2021 | intro | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | The wiki page of the Hyperledger Identity Special Interest Group meeting of 20 January 2021, now hosted by LF Decentralized Trust, whose main event was a presentation on KERI by Samuel M. Smith. The page lists the time, Zoom link and attendees and links the KERI white paper; no slides or recording were visible to an anonymous reader. | Samuel M. Smith (presenter); Vipin Bharathan (page author) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-thinking-of-did-keri-on | Tutorials and posts tutorial | Thinking of DID? KERI On | https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/thinking-of-did-keri-on | Robert Mitwicki (Human Colossus Foundation) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-01-17 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Human Colossus Foundation blog post by Robert Mitwicki on the growing number of W3C DID methods and the interoperability, scalability and security concerns they raise. It argues that a weak binding between a DID and its DID document leaves security gaps and proposes KERI as a uniform, self-certifying basis that ties identifiers to verifiable event logs. For readers comparing DID methods. | Robert Mitwicki (Human Colossus Foundation) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-acdc-white-paper | Papers and paper collections paper | Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDC.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2021-01-14 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Samuel M. Smith's 2021 white paper defining authentic chained data containers (ACDCs) as authentic data containers carrying authentic provenance chains, for data supply chains and rich authorization. It evaluates whether the W3C Verifiable Credential standard could be extended to serve as the concrete implementation and how ZCAP-LD compares, and works through a purchasing-authorization use case. Background on the origins of ACDC rather than the current specification. | Samuel M. Smith | v1.03 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) research/papers/acdc-white-paper | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-vlei-architecture | Talks and presentations talk | GLEIF vLEI Architecture | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/GLEIF_with_KERI.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-14 | 2021-01-05 | 2021 | practitioner | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | A slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, linked on keri.one as "GLEIF vLEI KERI Implementation", giving an early overview of the cryptographic infrastructure the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) chose for the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI). It explains why KERI-based identifiers were chosen over shared-ledger registries, how key event logs control credential registries, and how delegation from one GLEIF root identifier structures the ecosystem. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.2 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | GLEIF vLEI Architecture research/papers/kerione-gleif-vlei-architecture | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-on-keri-a-way-not-to-reveal-more-personal-info-than | Articles, press releases and opinion article | On KERI: a way not to reveal more personal info than you need to | https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/10/22/keri/ | Doc Searls | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-10-22 | 2020 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A blog post by Doc Searls on how people disclose only what a situation calls for offline while online identity is less orderly. He draws on Kim Cameron's laws of identity and presents KERI as a promising approach to digital credentials, with links to resources, while noting he is still learning about it. For general readers. | Doc Searls | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-how-keri-tackles-the-problem-of-trust | Tutorials and posts tutorial | How KERI tackles the problem of trust | https://dev.to/jolocomdev/how-keri-tackles-the-problem-of-trust-344d | Jolocom Dev Team (Jolocom) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-10-19 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | An article by the Jolocom development team, first published on jolocom.io and reposted on DEV Community, on establishing trust over networks. It notes weaknesses in certificate authorities and in decentralized identifier (DID) methods that depend on central registries, then explains KERI's hash-chained key event logs, event types, validation rules and witness-based conflict resolution. For developers new to KERI. | Jolocom Dev Team (Jolocom) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-definitely-identity-episode-14-with-sam-smith | Recordings and video recording | Definitely Identity Episode 14 with Sam Smith | https://soundcloud.com/tim-bouma-1/definitely-identity-e1pisode-14-with-sam-smith | Tim Bouma (host); Samuel M. Smith (guest, ProSapien LLC) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-10-08 | 2020 | intro | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | An episode of Tim Bouma's Definitely Identity podcast with Samuel M. Smith, founder of ProSapien LLC. According to the episode description, it explores KERI and its relation to decentralized identity, touching on trust domains, self-certifying identifiers and architectural implications from the KERI white paper. For listeners wanting the author's own account. | Tim Bouma (host); Samuel M. Smith (guest, ProSapien LLC) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-manning-ssi-book-chapter-10 | Papers and paper collections paper | 10 Decentralized key management | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/10-ssi-key-management.pdf | Dr. Sam Smith (chapter author); Manning Publications Co. (publisher) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-10 | 2020 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Chapter 10, 'Decentralized key management', from a Manning book on self-sovereign identity (SSI), written by Sam Smith and posted as a 38-page pre-production manuscript. It covers why key management is hard, conventional standards, roots of trust, decentralized key management, ledger-based and peer DID methods, and closes with a section summarizing KERI's architecture, for readers new to the subject. | Dr. Sam Smith (chapter author); Manning Publications Co. (publisher) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 10 Decentralized key management research/papers/kerione-manning-ssi-book-chapter-10 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-the-architecture-of-identity-systems | Articles, press releases and opinion article | The Architecture of Identity Systems | https://www.windley.com/archives/2020/09/the_architecture_of_identity_systems.shtml | Phil Windley | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-09-28 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A blog post by Phil Windley that sorts identity systems into administrative, algorithmic and autonomic architectures and examines how each one's root of trust determines who holds control. It presents KERI as a general-purpose system for autonomic identifiers, bound at inception to a key pair, whose operations are recorded in a key event log. For readers comparing identity architectures. | Phil Windley | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-part-2-inputs-domain-core-public-utility | Recordings and video recording | Part 2: Inputs Domain - Core public utility technologies for a "Next Generation" Internet | https://vimeo.com/459348260 | Samuel M. Smith (ProSapien LLC); Human Colossus Foundation (publisher) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-09-10 | 2020 | intro | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | A 58-minute video posted by the Human Colossus Foundation from its Dynamic Data Economy webinar series, in which Samuel M. Smith presents KERI as a basis for verifiable data inputs and for one DID method covering all signed inputs in a digital network. The matching slides are carded separately. | Samuel M. Smith (ProSapien LLC); Human Colossus Foundation (publisher) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-the-economics-of-its-bits-dde-presentation | Talks and presentations talk | KERI: The Economics of Its & Bits (DDE presentation slides) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DDEPresentation_20200910.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-09-10 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Slides (89 pages) by Samuel M. Smith for the Core Public Utility Technology Forum of the Dynamic Data Economy, 10 September 2020. They extend the Nonconformist keynote's economic argument into KERI itself: self-certifying pseudonymous identifiers, the "four A's" of secure data control, "sapored" (provenanced) data, privacy and correlation, then KERI's design. | Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-quantum-secure-dids | Papers and paper collections paper | Quantum Secure DIDs | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/quantum-secure-dids.pdf | Carsten Stöcker (Spherity GmbH); Samuel M. Smith (ProSapien LLC); Juan Caballero (Spherity GmbH) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-07-09 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Rebooting the Web of Trust (RWOT) community paper on making a DID method resistant to quantum attack with existing signing and hashing primitives. It proposes publishing only hashes of public keys and rotating keys after every signing operation, and points to KERI's pre-rotation as one way to do so. For designers of DID methods and decentralized identity systems. | Carsten Stöcker (Spherity GmbH); Samuel M. Smith (ProSapien LLC); Juan Caballero (Spherity GmbH) | 1.0 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Quantum Secure DIDs research/papers/kerione-quantum-secure-dids | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-closing-keynote-2-sam-smith-nonconformist | Recordings and video recording | Closing Keynote #2: Sam Smith (Nonconformist Innovation Summit) | https://youtu.be/8shbJbdXdis | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-07-02 | 2020 | intro | a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked presenter-reported | anyone with the link public | A 35-minute video of Samuel M. Smith's closing keynote at the Nonconformist Innovation Summit, July 2020, on the economics of digital identity. Judging from the matching slides, it argues for cooperative network effects and for people retaking control of their data and identifiers. For a general audience. | Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-the-economics-of-its-bits-digital-identity | Talks and presentations talk | The Economics of Its & Bits: Digital Identity (Nonconformist Keynote slides) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/NonconformistKeynoteWeb20200702.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-07-02 | 2020 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Slides (46 pages) for Samuel M. Smith's keynote at the Nonconformist Innovation Summit, 2 July 2020, titled "The Economics of Its & Bits, Digital Identity: Freedom, Privacy, Control, Security". They trace value moving from physical goods to data, set out the mathematics of cooperative network-of-network effects, and argue that trust is a transferable transaction cost and that control of data starts with control of identifiers, citing KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-ssi-meetup-webinar-on-keri | Recordings and video recording | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): A secure identifier overlay for the internet – Sam Smith – Webinar 58 | https://ssimeetup.org/key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-secure-identifier-overlay-internet-sam-smith-webinar-58/ | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. (presenter); SSIMeetup (host; page posted by Alex Preukschat) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-05-19 | 2020 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | SSIMeetup webinar 58, in which Samuel M. Smith presents KERI as a ledgerless decentralized key management infrastructure and a secure identifier overlay for the internet. The page carries an embedded YouTube video and links to the slides, under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license, and suits newcomers who want the 2020 introduction from the author. | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. (presenter); SSIMeetup (host; page posted by Alex Preukschat) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): A secure identifier overlay for the internet – Sam Smith – Webinar 58 events/talks/kerione-ssi-meetup-webinar-on-keri | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-the-duplicity-game | Talks and presentations talk | The Duplicity Game: or why you can trust KERI | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DuplicityGame_IIW_2020_A.pdf | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2020-04 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 72-slide deck presented at Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Spring 2020 that steps through a game between a controller and validators to show how inconsistency and duplicity in key event logs can or cannot go undetected under local and global consistency guarantees. It closes on key event based provenance and certificate transparency, for readers who want the intuition behind KERI's duplicity detection. | Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D. | 2.25 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | The Duplicity Game: or why you can trust KERI research/papers/kerione-the-duplicity-game | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-e4-ssi-vs-federation-with-steve-wilson | Recordings and video recording | E4: SSI vs Federation, with Steve Wilson | https://digitaltrust.vc/ssi-vs-federation-with-steve-wilson/ | Steve Wilson (guest, Constellation Research) | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | 2020-03-07 | 2020 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | anyone with the link public | Episode 4 of a podcast, listed elsewhere under the name Breaking Silos and dated March 2020, in which analyst Steve Wilson of Constellation Research argues that Australia's national identity framework has basic flaws and links them to why federated identity systems have failed elsewhere. Its relation to KERI is not stated in the listing found. Described from a search listing, not from the linked page. | Steve Wilson (guest, Constellation Research) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-decentralized-identity-as-a-meta-platform-how | Papers and paper collections paper | Decentralized Identity as a Meta-platform: How Cooperation Beats Aggregation | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/CooperationBeatsAggregation.pdf | Michael Shea; Samuel M. Smith; Carsten Stöcker; Juan Caballero (editor); Matt G. Condon | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2019-11-19 | 2019 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Rebooting the Web of Trust IX white paper arguing that an open decentralized identity framework can act as a meta-platform whose cooperating networks gain more value than competing, aggregating platforms. It covers network scaling laws, trust as a transaction cost, competition at the edge of a meta-platform, and identity for things in a circular economy. An economic argument for business and policy readers; it does not discuss KERI by name. | Michael Shea; Samuel M. Smith; Carsten Stöcker; Juan Caballero (editor); Matt G. Condon | 1.6 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Decentralized Identity as a Meta-platform: How Cooperation Beats Aggregation research/papers/kerione-decentralized-identity-as-a-meta-platform-how | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-a-did-for-everything | Papers and paper collections paper | A DID for Everything | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/A_DID_for_everything.pdf | Shaun Conway; Andrew Hughes; Moses Ma; Jack Poole; Martin Riedel; Samuel M. Smith; Carsten Stöcker | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2019-01-17 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Rebooting the Web of Trust VII white paper, subtitled "Attribution, Verification and Provenance for Entities and Data Items", that extends decentralized identifiers from people to any entity, including machines, locations, events and data items. It proposes chaining signed decentralized autonomic data (DAD) items to prove the provenance of a data flow. For architects of identity, Internet of Things and data-provenance systems. | Shaun Conway; Andrew Hughes; Moses Ma; Jack Poole; Martin Riedel; Samuel M. Smith; Carsten Stöcker | 1.0 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | A DID for Everything research/papers/kerione-a-did-for-everything | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-decentralized-autonomic-data-dad-and-the-three-rs | Papers and paper collections paper | Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD) and the three R's of Key Management | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DecentralizedAutonomicData.pdf | Samuel M. Smith; Vishal Gupta | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2018-04-26 | 2018 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Rebooting the Web of Trust VI white paper proposing decentralized autonomic data (DAD), self-identifying, self-certifying and self-securing data items tied to DIDs, and setting out minimally sufficient methods for key reproduction, rotation and recovery. Its basic pre-rotation scheme is an early form of the pre-rotation later used in KERI. For implementers of identity and streaming-data systems. | Samuel M. Smith; Vishal Gupta | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD) and the three R's of Key Management research/papers/kerione-decentralized-autonomic-data-dad-and-the-three-rs | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-identity-system-essentials | Papers and paper collections paper | Identity System Essentials | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/Identity-System-Essentials.pdf | Samuel M. Smith (Evernym); Dmitry Khovratovich (Evernym) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2016-03-29 | 2016 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2016 white paper from Evernym describing the essential characteristics of an identity system that provides sovereignty, security and privacy, and defining identity from what such a system provides. It covers attribute exchange, least disclosure, cryptonymous identifiers, identity graphs, sovereignty, Byzantine fault tolerant ledgers and degrees of transaction privacy. It predates KERI and is background on the ideas it grew from. | Samuel M. Smith (Evernym); Dmitry Khovratovich (Evernym) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Identity System Essentials research/papers/kerione-identity-system-essentials | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-open-reputation-framework | Papers and paper collections paper | Open Reputation Framework | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/open-reputation-low-level-whitepaper.pdf | Samuel M. Smith (The World Table) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2015-05-13 | 2015 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 40-page draft white paper from 2015 that proposes Open Reputation, an open source framework for generating, evaluating and disseminating reputation from reputational events ("reputes"). It gives a notional architecture and a formal specification of the repute data element, compares distributed consensus algorithms for trustworthy processing, and describes protocols for private transmission and storage of reputes. It predates KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) and is of interest for the history of the author's work on decentralized trust. | Samuel M. Smith (The World Table) | Draft Revision 1.2 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Open Reputation Framework research/papers/kerione-open-reputation-framework | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| kerione-open-reputation-the-decentralized-reputation-platfor | Papers and paper collections paper | Open Reputation: The Decentralized Reputation Platform | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/open-reputation-high-level-whitepaper.pdf | Lincoln Cannon (The World Table) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | 2015-05-13 | 2015 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 10-page high-level companion paper from 2015 describing Open Reputation as an open source decentralized platform that maps identity and reputation onto the Internet of Things, with pseudonymous identities gathering encrypted, shareable reputation in a public database anchored to a blockchain. Its sections cover open source, topology, identity, reputation, relation, decentralization and privacy. It is the non-technical counterpart to the Open Reputation Framework paper. | Lincoln Cannon (The World Table) | Draft Revision 1.1 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Open Reputation: The Decentralized Reputation Platform research/papers/kerione-open-reputation-the-decentralized-reputation-platfor | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| acdc-spec | Specifications and glossaries specification | ACDC specification v1.0 | https://trustoverip.github.io/kswg-acdc-specification/ | ToIP KERI Suite Working Group | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-11-04 | normative | a specification or a requirement in one normative | anyone with the link public | The GitHub repository holding the Trust Over IP specification of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC), rendered at trustoverip.github.io/kswg-acdc-specification. For implementers who need the normative ACDC text and its issue history. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| wot-terms | Documentation and education sites site | WOT-terms (KERISSE.org), the terminology site | https://weboftrust.github.io/WOT-terms/ | Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann, WebOfTrust | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-16 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | The KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) Suite's concepts and terminology site, built from the WebOfTrust WOT-terms repository, with sections on concepts, education, resources and a glossary. It is titled KERISSE.org (KERI Suite Search Engine), while the search engine itself has its own page (see KERISSE). It describes itself as a personal learning environment and consensus-building tool, for learners at any level. | 2022 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| vlei-wiki | Documentation and education sites site | vlei.wiki | https://www.vlei.wiki/ | Key State Capital (not GLEIF) | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-11-04 | practitioner | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | anyone with the link public | A knowledge base for the KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) and verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) ecosystem, made by Key State Capital. It offers concept pages (over 420 by its own count), search across indexed source documents and repositories, AI-generated explanations, and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) interface. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| hitchhikers-guide | Tutorials and posts tutorial | The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI, parts 1 to 3 | https://medium.com/finema/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-1-51371f655bba | Nuttawut Kongsuwan (Finema) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-11-04 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | The first of a three-part introductory blog series, answering why one would adopt KERI. It traces digital identity from centralized and federated models to blockchain-based decentralized identity and argues that KERI, having no distributed consensus mechanism, avoids the blockchain trilemma, for newcomers. | 2024 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| smith-papers | Papers and paper collections paper | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers | Samuel M. Smith | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-11-04 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Samuel M. Smith's GitHub repository of white papers and presentations ("White Papers etc"), created in 2016 and still updated in 2026. Its whitepapers folder holds the KERI white papers, papers from Rebooting the Web of Trust, ACDC, Secure Privacy, Authenticity, Confidentiality (SPAC) and Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) drafts, reputation papers and an archive of older KERI material; its presentations folder holds the slide decks listed on a separate card. A primary source for the theory behind the KERI Suite. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| weboftrust-org | Repositories repository | WebOfTrust GitHub organization | https://github.com/WebOfTrust | WebOfTrust community | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-11-04 | implementer | a repository or its documentation; what the code does can be checked code | anyone with the link public | The GitHub organization, described as "Standards Relating to a Web Of Trust Based on Autonomic Identifier Systems", that hosts the open source KERI Suite implementations, 89 public repositories as of October 2026. They include keripy (the Python reference implementation), keria (a cloud agent), signify-ts and signifypy (edge signing clients), cesride (Rust CESR primitives), the vLEI specifications repository, and the WOT-terms glossary and KERISSE search. For implementers looking for code. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| vlei-specs | Repositories repository | WebOfTrust/vLEI, the open vLEI specifications | https://github.com/WebOfTrust/vLEI | WebOfTrust, GLEIF | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-15 | implementer | a repository or its documentation; what the code does can be checked code | anyone with the link public | The WebOfTrust repository of public open specifications for GLEIF's vLEI: JSON schemas for the six vLEI credential types (QVI, LE, OOR AUTH, ECR AUTH, OOR, ECR) as ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) schemas, sample credentials, test vectors, and a schema generator and server. Apache-2.0 licensed; still receiving commits. | HTML | Apache-2.0 | 1.0.4 (2026-10-15) | 2026-10-15 | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| acdc-task-force | Working groups and meeting series meeting-series | ToIP ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) Task Force | https://lf-toip.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/pages/22999783/ACDC+Authentic+Chained+Data+Container+Task+Force | Trust over IP, under the KSWG; chairs Smith and Feairheller | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page official | anyone with the link public | The Trust Over IP Foundation wiki page of the ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) Task Force, which states its aim to help draft and incubate a family of IETF-focused specifications covering source provenance and authorization provenance or delegation. It sits under the KERI Suite Working Group in the wiki's navigation. For readers tracing where the ACDC specification work was organized. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| weboftrust-meetings | Working groups and meeting series meeting-series | WebOfTrust community meetings (README of WebOfTrust/keri) | https://github.com/WebOfTrust/keri | WebOfTrust | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-11-04 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | The GitHub repository the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) community uses for development coordination, meetings and discussion. Its README points to the community Discord, the Trust over IP specifications (KERI, ACDC, CESR, did:webs), the implementer and specification call schedules, an education effort and a table of implementations with keripy as the reference. A starting point for developers joining the community. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-for-muggles | Talks and presentations talk | KERI for Muggles | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lpzYcPrIox9V4hERtn4Kcf7uq01OVU9u3PuVm1aYzR0/edit?usp=sharing | Samuel M. Smith; Drummond Reed | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | shared with conditions on passing it on; link only, never copied restricted | An introductory Google Slides deck on KERI for non-specialists, linked from keri.one. The deck could not be opened, so its content is not described here; the Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI, Part 3, attributes it to Samuel M. Smith and Drummond Reed and says it was given at Internet Identity Workshop #33 (not verified against the deck). | Samuel M. Smith; Drummond Reed | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-cesr-for-first-years | Talks and presentations talk | CESR for First Years | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12nX_IIPp5xw8qAxhZy-ae2aWYytYQmFBbB9K3PcVhqQ/edit | unknown | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | shared with conditions on passing it on; link only, never copied restricted | An introductory Google Slides deck on CESR (Composable Event Streaming Representation), linked from keri.one. The deck could not be opened, so its author, date and content are not described here. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-presentations-smithsamuelm-papers | Repositories repository | Presentations (SmithSamuelM/Papers) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/tree/master/presentations | Samuel M. Smith | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | The presentations folder of Samuel M. Smith's Papers repository: 65 PDF slide decks at the top level plus an Archive subfolder, as of October 2026, last changed in June 2026. The decks run from reputation and SeedQuest talks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) in 2017 and 2018 through KERI, ACDC, CESR, OOBI, SPAC and TSP overviews to 2025 and 2026 talks. For readers who want Smith's own slides on each topic. | Samuel M. Smith | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-didnt-did-un-keri-did | Talks and presentations talk | DIDn't: did:un = KERI => DID | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/161wlX-UtZCYlVRoEOJ8KwIu7h79gQ0U64kW63SArZkw/edit | Charles Cunningham (Jolocom) | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A Google Slides deck by Charles Cunningham of Jolocom, linked on keri.one as "DID Method Discussion for KERI", proposing a DID method (did:un) that transforms KERI identifier state into DID document contents. It explains KERI prefixes and derivation codes, which parts of key state map usefully to DID documents (keys, delegators and delegates) and which do not (thresholds, witnesses), and how delegation might be expressed with "controller" and "alsoKnownAs". For DID method designers. | Charles Cunningham (Jolocom) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-mooc-md-placeholder | Documentation and education sites site | KERI-Mooc.md (placeholder) | https://github.com/henkvancann/keri-1/blob/main/docs/KERI-Mooc.md | Henk van Cann | the maintainer says it is no longer maintained, or it redirects elsewhere retired | 2026-10-14 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A placeholder file in Henk van Cann's fork of the WebOfTrust/keri repository, kept so the keri.one link still resolves. It states that the KERI massive open online course (MOOC) is a legacy concept and points readers to KERISSE (kerisse.org) as one entry point for learning about the KERI Suite. No course material remains at this link. | Henk van Cann | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-is-for-humans-pki-is-for-machines-and-not | Articles, press releases and opinion article | KERI is for Humans (PKI is for machines and not humans: Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) | https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/pki-is-for-machines-and-not-humans-key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-226046085fac | unknown | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | anyone with the link public | A Medium article in the ASecuritySite publication whose web address gives its title as "PKI is for machines and not humans: Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI)", contrasting public key infrastructure (PKI) with KERI. The article could not be read; this description rests on the title and URL only. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-keri-a-more-performant-ledger-for-trust-identities | Articles, press releases and opinion article | KERI: A More Performant Ledger for Trust Identities | https://medium.com/spherity/introducing-keri-8f50ed1d8ed7 | unknown | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | anyone with the link public | A Medium article in Spherity's publication, linked on keri.one under this title, introducing KERI. The article could not be read; this description rests on keri.one's title and the URL ("introducing-keri") only. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-meta-platforms-and-cooperative-network-of-networks | Articles, press releases and opinion article | Meta-Platforms and Cooperative Network-of-Networks Effects | https://medium.com/selfrule/meta-platforms-and-cooperative-network-of-networks-effects-6e61eb15c586 | unknown | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | anyone with the link public | A Medium article in the "selfrule" publication on meta-platforms and cooperative network-of-networks effects, the economic argument also made in the RWOT IX paper Decentralized Identity as a Meta-platform. The article could not be read; this description rests on the title and URL only. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-gleif-s-digital-strategy-for-the-lei | Documentation and education sites site | GLEIF's Digital Strategy for the LEI | https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-solutions/gleifs-digital-strategy-for-the-lei | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A GLEIF web page describing its strategy for linking the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) to organizations through two cryptographic approaches, digital certificates and verifiable credentials, so the Global LEI System can serve as a standard identity for legal entities online. | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-where-trust-bottoms-out | Papers and paper collections paper | Where Trust Bottoms Out: X.509, Certificate Transparency, and KERI's DPKI Architecture | https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/wtbo.html | Daniel Hardman | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A paper by Daniel Hardman comparing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with Certificate Transparency (CT) and the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) as a decentralized PKI. It sets out what CT and KERI share, where their roots of trust differ, KERI's own tradeoffs, and how each would handle the transition to post-quantum cryptography. For practitioners who know X.509 and want to place KERI against it. | Daniel Hardman | 1.9 (item CC-COM-260327) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Where Trust Bottoms Out: X.509, Certificate Transparency, and KERI's DPKI Architecture research/papers/where-trust-bottoms-out | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-why-anchored-signatures | Papers and paper collections paper | Why Anchored Signatures? | https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/was.html | Daniel Hardman | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A short paper by Daniel Hardman explaining why a bare digital signature is weak evidence once a key may be stolen or rotated, and how anchoring each signing event in a tamper-evident record of key state closes the window for backdated forgeries. It uses KERI key event logs and transaction event logs as the worked solution. For practitioners designing evidence that must survive key rotation. | Daniel Hardman | 1.1 (item CC-PRI-250201) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Why Anchored Signatures? research/papers/why-anchored-signatures | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-why-x509-certs-should-be-secondary-evidence | Papers and paper collections paper | Why X509 Certs Should Be Secondary Evidence of Org Identity | https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/x509-prob.html | Daniel Hardman | changed within the last six months, or a live service active | 2026-10-14 | 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 X.509 certificates should be secondary, not primary, evidence of an organization's identity, with ACDCs (Authentic Chained Data Containers) such as vLEIs carrying the primary weight. It works through mismatched lifespans, opaque governance, the post-quantum path, single-key signing, missing pre-rotation, unsequenced signatures, maintenance, revocation and scale. For practitioners choosing evidence for organizational identity. | Daniel Hardman | 1.4 (item CC-POS-241104) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | Why X509 Certs Should Be Secondary Evidence of Org Identity research/papers/why-x509-certs-should-be-secondary-evidence | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-how-sd-jwt-and-acdc-are-similar-and-different | Papers and paper collections paper | How SD-JWT and ACDC are similar and different | https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/sdjwt-acdc.html | Daniel Hardman | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A comparison by Daniel Hardman of SD-JWT (Selective Disclosure for JSON Web Tokens) and ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Containers): what they share, then how they differ in scope, identifiers, signing, chaining, serialization, origins and standards path. The author states that he is not a neutral source. For practitioners choosing a credential format. | Daniel Hardman | 1.0 (item CC-COM-241105) | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | How SD-JWT and ACDC are similar and different research/papers/how-sd-jwt-and-acdc-are-similar-and-different | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-acdc-for-muggles | Talks and presentations talk | ACDC for Muggles | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mO1EZa9BcjAjWEzw7DWi124uMfyNyDeM3HuajsGNoTo/edit?usp=sharing | unknown | not checked, or the page gives no date unknown | 2026-10-14 | intro | a third party's account not checked against a primary source unverified | shared with conditions on passing it on; link only, never copied restricted | A Google Slides deck linked from keri.one's ACDC section under the title 'ACDC for Muggles', and listed among the documentation links on Samuel M. Smith's ACDC overview deck of 2022-04-26. Its content could not be read, so this description rests only on the title and where it is linked. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| kerione-cesr-proof-signatures | Talks and presentations talk | CESR Proof Signatures: Partial Digital Signatures with KERI and ACDC | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Kkzi0Ay97VLdlFFnYuxcQ2csPo6h6rCDxDkAJS7Q97c/edit | unknown | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-14 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 24-slide Google Slides deck introducing CESR Proof Signatures, a specification for attaching digital signatures to nested portions of self-addressing data, with signatures that can be transposed across envelope boundaries. It recaps KERI, ACDC and CESR, then explains SAD path signature groups, transposition, the SAD Path Language and new code-table entries, and lists uses in KERI, ACDC and the vLEI. For implementers. | keri.one KERI Resources page keri-one-resources | CESR Proof Signatures: Partial Digital Signatures with KERI and ACDC research/papers/cesr-proof-signatures | 1 | 1 |
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