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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-automated-reasoning-and-acdcs | Talks and presentations talk | Automated Reasoning and ACDCs: Secure Decentralized Reputation Algorithms | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/AR_ACDC_Rep.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2022-05 | 2022 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 50-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on using property graphs in Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) to reason with uncertainty, centered on decentralized reputation. It presents the author's Symmetric Multiple Elastic Constraint (SMEC) networks, computational reputation and its lexicon, portable identity and reputation, and platform network effects, with backup material from earlier reputation work. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-authentic-data-supply-chains-dad | Talks and presentations talk | Systems Architecture for Authentic Data Supply Chains with DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data) and Zero Trust | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/AuthenticDataSupplyChains_DAD_Arch.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2022-05 | 2022 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 50-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on authentic data supply chains: signed, hash-chained data structures that give chain of custody for data through processing. It covers identity planes and control operations, six diffuse-trust perimeterless security principles, DIDs as unified identifiers, and chaining of Decentralized Autonomic Data items (DADi). | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-vc-spec-enhancement-strategy-proposal | Papers and paper collections paper | VC Spec Enhancement Strategy Proposal | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/VC_Enhancement_Strategy.md | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2022-04-04 | 2022 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A position paper on strategy for the W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC) specification, arguing that Linked Data (JSON-LD/RDF) is a barrier to VC adoption and that a JSON Schema based VC specification with self-addressing identifiers (SAIDs) should be the primary path, with sections on semantic interoperability, labeled property graphs, immutable schemas and canonicalization. For participants in credential standards work. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.2.8 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-acdc-specification-draft-0-3-2 | Specifications and glossaries specification | ACDC Specification | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ACDC_Spec.md | Samuel M. Smith | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-15 | 2022-04 | 2022 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | An early working draft (version 0.3.2) of the Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC) specification, kept as a non-HackMD version: ACDC fields, compact and private variants, schema, disclosure mechanisms, the three-party exploitation model, chain-link confidentiality, and attribute, edge and rule sections. For readers tracing the history of the ACDC specification. | Samuel M. Smith | 0.3.2 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-xora-exclusive-or-accumulator | Papers and paper collections paper | XORA (Exclusive Or Accumulator) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/XORA.md | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2022-02 | 2022 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A short paper describing XORA, an exclusive-or accumulator for blinding digests, covering information-theoretic and perfect security, cryptographic strength, one-time-pad blinding, properties of XOR, its use as a cryptographic accumulator, and confidentiality-preserving disclosure mechanisms for Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDCs) such as hidden-attribute ACDCs. For cryptography-minded implementers. | Samuel M. Smith | 0.04 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-ietf-blockchain-wg-2021-11-23 | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Trust Spanning Layer for the Internet | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_IETF_20211123.web.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-11-23 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 94-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for the IETF Blockchain WG on 2021/11/23, presenting KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) as a trust spanning layer. Beyond the IEEE version it covers protocol modes, witness agreement (KA2CE), live and dead exploit recovery, delegation, and KEL-anchored credential registries, with references to the then IETF drafts. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-ieee-blockchain-2021-10-21 | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Trust Spanning Layer for the Internet | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_IEEE_Blockchain_20211021.web.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Senior Member IEEE (as stated on the title slide)'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-10-21 | 2021 | 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 (Senior Member IEEE) for an IEEE virtual event, BlockChain Session 2, on 2021/10/21, presenting KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) as a trust spanning layer for the internet. It covers self-certifying identifiers, the secure attribution problem, trust bases and the GLEIF vLEI (verifiable Legal Entity Identifier). | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Senior Member IEEE (as stated on the title slide)'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-acdc-iiw-2021b | Talks and presentations talk | Authentic Chained Data Containers: ToIP Technical Working Group Task Force | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_IIW2021B.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-10-12 | 2021 | implementer | 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 presented at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2021 B, introducing the Trust over IP (ToIP) Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) task force. It covers Self-Addressing Identifiers (SAIDs), the ACDC top-level structure including hidden attributes, provenance chaining, issuer-holder-verifier and delegation models, and closed versus open loop verification. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.06 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-internet-safety-with-keri-percolation-oobi | Talks and presentations talk | Internet Safety with KERI: Invasion Percolation Discovery, OOBIs (Out-Of-Band-Introductions), Spanning Trust Layer | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_Percolation_OOBI.web.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-10 | 2021 | 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, marked for an IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) session in 2021, on how KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) components discover each other. It covers user-permissioned percolated discovery, the OOBI URL forms, the BADA data acceptance policy, and the spanning-layer argument for KERI. For practitioners and implementers. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Internet Safety with KERI: Invasion Percolation Discovery, OOBIs (Out-Of-Band-Introductions), Spanning Trust Layer research/papers/papers-internet-safety-with-keri-percolation-oobi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-overview-v2-60 | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI2_Overview.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 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 of Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) by Samuel M. Smith, version 2.60, dated 2021-04-23, from the period when KERI work was hosted at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). It covers the secure attribution problem, self-certifying identifiers, duplicity, trust bases, the unified identifier model, KERI stacks and delegation, with links to the KERI implementations of that time. | Samuel M. Smith | 2.60 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-pac-theorem-keri-zero-trust-data-management | Talks and presentations talk | PAC Theorem: Privacy, Authenticity, Confidentiality. KERI and Zero Trust Data Management | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_PAC_Theorem.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-04-23 | 2021 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 228-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, marked version 2.60 and dated 2021/04/23, that states the PAC (privacy, authenticity, confidentiality) theorem and uses it to frame zero-trust data management with KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure). Most of the deck is reference material on KERI identifiers, delegation, witnessing, security and the CESR encoding. For practitioners and implementers. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | 2.60 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | PAC Theorem: Privacy, Authenticity, Confidentiality. KERI and Zero Trust Data Management research/papers/papers-pac-theorem-keri-zero-trust-data-management | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| papers-keridemlia-a-discovery-mechanism-for-keri | Papers and paper collections paper | Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/keridemlia.pdf | Ryan W. West; Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2021-02 | 2021 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A short paper describing Keridemlia, a prototype discovery service for KERI that maps controller identifiers to witness identifiers and witnesses to IP addresses using a modified Kademlia distributed hash table, with its design, API, verification approach, optimizations and related work. | Ryan W. West; Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI research/papers/papers-keridemlia-a-discovery-mechanism-for-keri | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-verifiable-trust-bases | Talks and presentations talk | Verifiable Trust Bases: Renewing the Web of Trust | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERIVerifiableTrustBases.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2020-10-20 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 52-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, version 2.53 dated 2020-10-20, on how Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) provides a verifiable trust basis for identifiers. It compares administrative, algorithmic and autonomic trust bases, presents the trust spanning layer and unified identifier model, and walks through delegation, witness and watcher modes, and discovery, for practitioners and designers. | Samuel M. Smith | 2.53 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Verifiable Trust Bases: Renewing the Web of Trust research/papers/papers-verifiable-trust-bases | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-for-muggles | Talks and presentations talk | KERI for Muggles | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_for_Muggles.pdf | unknown | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2020-10-20 | 2020 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 52-slide introductory deck for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) #31, Day 1, Session #2, 20 October 2020, explaining KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) in seven plain-language steps. The deck names no author; its host says they volunteered to run the session, with Samuel M. Smith answering questions and Timothy Ruff giving background. For newcomers. | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | KERI for Muggles research/papers/papers-keri-for-muggles | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-2-overview-iiw-2020a | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure KERI-2: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI2_Overview_IIW_2020_A.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-15 | 2020-04 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 75-slide KERI overview by Samuel M. Smith, version 2.28, presented at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Spring 2020, 28 to 30 April. It covers self-certifying identifier issuance, key event messages, event chaining and sealing, duplicity, pre-rotation, delegation and protocol operational modes. | Samuel M. Smith | 2.28 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-design-and-build-v1-62 | Papers and paper collections paper | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) Design and Build | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/keri_archive/KERI_WP_1.62_Web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-15 | 2020-02-11 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Version 1.62 (2020/02/11) of the KERI white paper, presenting a decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI) built on key pre-rotation and witnessed key event receipt logs, with direct and indirect trust modes. Archived; kept for history. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.62 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-security-concerns-w3c-did-wg-2020 | Talks and presentations talk | Security Concerns: Discussion W3C DID WG | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/W3C_DID_Security_Concerns.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2020-01-14 | 2020 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 54-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for a W3C DID (Decentralized Identifier) Working Group discussion on 2020/01/14, on identifier control authority, certificate transparency, self-certifying and autonomic identifiers, key rotation and pre-rotation, and KERI event formats and nomenclature. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-overview-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): Model for a Universal DKMI | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/Archive/KERI_Overview.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-15 | 2019-12 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 39-slide early overview of Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) by Samuel M. Smith, presenting KERI as a model for a universal Decentralized Key Management Infrastructure (DKMI). It covers self-certifying identifiers, autonomic identifiers and namespaces, pre-rotation, direct and witnessed modes, delegation, the state verifier engine and early KERI nomenclature. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-alice-attempts-to-abuse-a-verifiable-credential | Papers and paper collections paper | Alice Attempts to Abuse a Verifiable Credential | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/alice-attempts-abuse-verifiable-credential.pdf | P. Dingle; S. Hammann (lead author); D. Hardman; C. Winczewski; S. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-11-19 | 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 (RWOT) IX white paper (Prague, 2019) that uses a fictional prescription scenario to examine fraud by a malicious holder against verifiable credentials, comparing traditionally signed and zero-knowledge proof credentials, with best practices for verifiers and a survivability perspective. | P. Dingle; S. Hammann (lead author); D. Hardman; C. Winczewski; S. Smith | 1.0 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Alice Attempts to Abuse a Verifiable Credential research/papers/papers-alice-attempts-to-abuse-a-verifiable-credential | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| papers-censorship-resistance-permissioned-ledgers | Talks and presentations talk | Censorship Resistance of Permissioned Ledgers: Survivability Analysis | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/CensorshipResistance_IIW_2019_B.pdf | Phil Windley; Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-10-01 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 7-slide deck by Phil Windley and Samuel M. Smith from the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Fall 2019, applying mission survivability (susceptibility, vulnerability, recoverability) to an activist's identifier anchored on a permissioned ledger. It lists attacks and caveats and proposes mesh anchoring. | Phil Windley; Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-universal-dkmi-iiw-2019b | Talks and presentations talk | KERI: 2 Universal DKMI | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_Details_IIW_2019_B.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-10-01 | 2019 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 33-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Fall 2019 on KERI as a universal Decentralized Key Management Infrastructure (DKMI). It covers self-certifying identifiers, key rotation, nomenclature, pair-wise and witnessed modes, the state verifier engine, and generic and delegated inception, rotation and interaction events. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-universal-dkmi-root-of-trust-iiw-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | KERI: Universal DKMI, Decentralized Root-of-Trust, Last Mile | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_RootOfTrust_IIW_2019_B.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-10-01 | 2019 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 10-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) Fall 2019, 2019/10/01, introducing KERI as a universal DKMI (decentralized key management infrastructure). It covers the human basis of trust, cryptographic root of trust from a random seed, and consistent attribution with duplicity detection, with a background reading list. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-seedquest-iiw-2019-fall | Talks and presentations talk | SeedQuest: A 3-D Game Mnemonic for Key Recovery | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SeedQuest_IIW_2019_B.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-10 | 2019 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 10-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) Fall 2019 on SeedQuest, which encodes a 128-bit seed as a sequence of 3-D game actions to use episodic memory for key recovery. Short version with memory-research references. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-for-everything-medtalk-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | A DID (Decentralized Identifier) for Everything: DIDs as Unified Identifiers, Zero-Trust Computing, Inverted Computing Architectures | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DID_Everything_MedTalk_20190822.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-08-22 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 41-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at Medici MedTalk, 2019-08-22, the latest of the "DID for Everything" decks. It covers DIDs as unified identifiers, zero-trust and inverted computing architectures, Decentralized Autonomic Data items (DADi), derived DIDs and data provenance chains. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-keri-design-and-build-v1-6 | Papers and paper collections paper | Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) Design and Build | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/keri_archive/KERI_WP_1.6_Web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith (ConsenSys Inc.) | replaced by a named successor; kept for history superseded | 2026-10-15 | 2019-07-03 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | Version 1.6 (2019/07/03) of the KERI white paper presenting a decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI) built on key pre-rotation and witnessed key event receipt logs. Archived; kept for history. | Samuel M. Smith (ConsenSys Inc.) | 1.6 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-hub-2-5-token-model | Papers and paper collections paper | Hub 2.5-Token Model | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/hub-dual-token-model.pdf | Samuel M. Smith; Eric Ly | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-05-14 | 2019 | practitioner | a company's account of its own product or deployment vendor-reported | anyone with the link public | A 2019 paper describing the token model of Hub, a decentralized trust network based on its Human Trust Protocol: a store-of-value token, a closed medium-of-exchange token used as trust stakes and rewards, and fiat. Not about KERI; of historical interest only. | Samuel M. Smith; Eric Ly | 1.0 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-seedquest-iiw-2019-spring | Talks and presentations talk | SeedQuest: A 3-D Game Mnemonic for Key Recovery | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SeedQuest_IIW_2019_Spring_10A.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-05 | 2019 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 14-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) Spring 2019 on SeedQuest, a game mnemonic that encodes a seed as scene, site and action choices, with its entropy budget and learn and recall modes. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-meta-platform-theory-iiw-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | Meta-Platform Theory: Cooperative Network of Networks Effects. Scaling Laws for Trans-contextual Value Transfer. Why decentralized platforms will eat centralized platforms | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/MetaPlatforms_IIW_20190430_5A.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-04-30 | 2019 | intro | 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 for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop), 2019/04/30, Session 5, on network-effect scaling laws and the argument that cooperative decentralized meta-platforms will displace centralized platforms. It predates KERI and is not about it. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-for-everything-openwest-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | A DID (Decentralized Identifier) for Everything: Unified DIDs for Anything Decentralized | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DID_Everything_OpenWest2019.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-04-11 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 45-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at OpenWest, 2019-04-11, on DIDs as unified identifiers for data. It covers derived DIDs (dDID), Decentralized Autonomic Data items (DADi), diffuse-trust perimeterless security principles and data flow provenance. It predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-market-incentives-meta-platform-byu-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | Market Incentives & Mechanism Design in Decentralized Distributed Ledger Systems and Meta-Platform Theory | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/MetaPlatformBYUCIOLecture20190305.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-03-05 | 2019 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 35-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for the BYU CIO Lecture Series on 2019.03.05, on distributed versus decentralized computing, algorithmic mechanism design and control theory for ledger systems, and meta-platform theory. It predates KERI and is not about it. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-for-everything-blockchain-kickoff-2019 | Talks and presentations talk | A DID (Decentralized Identifier) for Everything: Unified DIDs for Anything Decentralized | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DID_Everything_BlockchainKickoffSummit.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2019-01-29 | 2019 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 36-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at the BlockChain Kickoff Summit, 2019-01-29 to 30, on using DIDs as unified identifiers for data. It traces the path from decentralized reputation to Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD), and covers derived DIDs (dDID), Decentralized Autonomic Data items (DADi), diffuse-trust security principles and data flow provenance. It predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-difuon-fog-market-and-technology-opportunity | Papers and paper collections paper | Difuon Fog: Decentralized Federated Ephemeral Edge Computing Platform: Market and Technology Opportunity | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DifuonOpportunityWP.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-11-30 | 2018 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2018 white paper describing the market and technology opportunity for Difuon Fog, a proposed decentralized, federated, ephemeral edge (fog) computing platform and marketplace for data integration and analysis across Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Not about KERI; of historical interest only. | Samuel M. Smith | 0.1 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-difuon-fog-dual-tokenomics | Papers and paper collections paper | Difuon Fog: Dual Tokenomics: Redemptive Benefit Token | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DifuonTokenomicsWP.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-11-29 | 2018 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2018 white paper describing a dual utility token model for the Difuon Fog platform: a medium-of-exchange token for stable, low-friction transactions and a store-of-value 'redemptive benefit token' designed to limit downward volatility and reward participation. Not about KERI; of historical interest only. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.3 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-dual-utility-tokenomics | Talks and presentations talk | Dual Utility Tokenomics: Fixing Broken Single Utility Tokenomics | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DualTokenomics_IIW_20181025.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-10-25 | 2018 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 15-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), 2018-10-25, on the problems of single utility tokens and a dual-token design, drawing on the Difuon tokenomics white paper. It examines EOS, Tezos and Quantstamp and token behaviors such as staking and redemption. It is not about KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-for-everything-iiw-2018 | Talks and presentations talk | DID for Everything: Unified Identifier DADi (Decentralized Autonomic Data item), dDID (derived-DID) | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DID_Everything_IIW_20181023.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-10-24 | 2018 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 23-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), 2018-10-24, the earliest of the "DID for Everything" decks. It presents DIDs as unified identifiers, Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD), derived DIDs and chaining of data items for provenance, building on the author's RWOT papers. It predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-seedquest-didery-iiw-2018 | Talks and presentations talk | SeedQuest, Didery | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/SeedQuest_Didery_IIW20181023.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-10-24 | 2018 | 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 IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) on 2018.10.24 presenting SeedQuest, a game-based mnemonic for recovering key seeds, and Didery, a key rotation and recovery service, motivated by DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data) and the three R's of key management. It is pre-KERI background. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-decentralized-identity-and-reputation | Papers and paper collections paper | Decentralized Identity and Reputation | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/IdentityAndReputation.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 | 2018-10 | 2018 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A one-paragraph note about two talks given at a 'Portugal retreat', one on types of artificial intelligence useful for reputation systems and decentralized autonomous organizations, and one on reputation and two-sided networks, arguing that decentralized identity is the foundation for decentralized reputation. Predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-reputation-two-sided-networks-iiw-2018-04-05 | Talks and presentations talk | Reputation and Two-Sided Networks | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ReputationDisintermediation_IIW_20180405.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-04-05 | 2018 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 47-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2018.04.05 (IIW, per the file name) on disintermediation theory, platform business models and two-sided networks, and the role of portable reputation. It predates KERI and is not about it. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-quest-for-the-mnemon-seed-iiw-2018 | Talks and presentations talk | Quest for the Mnemon Seed. The Three R's of Key Management: Reproduction, Rotation, and Recovery. DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data). Derived-DID | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/QuestForTheMnemonSeed_IIW_20180404.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-04-04 | 2018 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 35-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) on 2018.04.04, presenting DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data) and the three R's of key management (reproduction, rotation, recovery) from his RWOT (Rebooting the Web of Trust) Spring 2018 paper, and derived DIDs (decentralized identifiers). It is pre-KERI background on key rotation and recovery. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-ai-overview-2018 | Talks and presentations talk | AI Overview | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/AI_Overview_20180208.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-02-08 | 2018 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 28-slide survey of artificial intelligence by Samuel M. Smith, dated 2018-02-08. It reviews kinds of AI and machine learning, new kinds of AI for blockchain, distributed consensus, and the author's earlier work on autonomous vehicles and coordinated control. It predates KERI and is not about it. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-reputation-two-sided-networks-2018-02-08 | Talks and presentations talk | Reputation and Two-Sided Networks | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ReputationTwoSidedNetworks_20180208.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2018-02-08 | 2018 | intro | 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 dated 2018.02.08 on disintermediation theory, platform business models and two-sided networks, and the role of portable reputation. It predates KERI and is not about it. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-did-revision-proposal | Papers and paper collections paper | DID Revision Proposal | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/DIDRevised.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 | 2017-11 | 2017 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2017 proposal for modifying the W3C Decentralized Identifier (DID) specification so that key management is a first-order feature and existing URL parsing tools can be reused. It compares URL and DID ABNF syntax, discusses DID fragments, self-certifying data, operations and hierarchical deterministic key generation, and ends with an email exchange about DID path syntax. Predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-decentralized-self-certifying-self-identifying-data | Papers and paper collections paper | Decentralized Self-certifying Self-Identifing Data | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/SelfIdentifyingData.md | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2017-10-27 | 2017 | implementer | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2017 white paper on representing data items that carry their own self-certifying decentralized identifier (DID) and signature, covering HTTP signature headers, change detection, intelligent defaults and the four R's of key management, including an early description of key pre-rotation. Predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Decentralized Self-certifying Self-Identifing Data research/papers/papers-decentralized-self-certifying-self-identifying-data | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| papers-zero-trust-computing-raet-openwest-2017 | Talks and presentations talk | Building Zero Trust Computing Applications Using RAET | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ZeroTrustRaet.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Founder, ProSapien'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2017-07-13 | 2017 | 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 (Founder, ProSapien) for OpenWest 2017, Thursday July 13, on diffuse-trust, perimeter-less security and building such applications with RAET (Reliable Asynchronous Event Transport). It predates KERI. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Founder, ProSapien'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-many-cubed | Papers and paper collections paper | Many Cubed; Solving the Many-to-Many-to-Many Problem for Scalable Reliable Secure Distributed Internet Applications | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/ManyCubed.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2017-01-05 | 2017 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 2017 white paper on designing secure, scalable distributed internet applications, arguing they must solve a 'many-to-many-to-many' problem in how components share information, setting out diffuse-trust perimeterless security principles, and proposing routed data flows over the RAET protocol. Predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | 1.1 | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | Many Cubed; Solving the Many-to-Many-to-Many Problem for Scalable Reliable Secure Distributed Internet Applications research/papers/papers-many-cubed | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| papers-open-reputation-portable-reputation-iiw-2017 | Talks and presentations talk | Open Reputation: Portable Reputation as a Primal Use-Case for Decentralized Identifiers | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ReputationIIW2017.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2017 | 2017 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 25-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith from 2017 presenting portable reputation as a primary use case for DIDs (decentralized identifiers): reputation defined, computational reputation from reputational events ('reputes'), and the Open Reputation framework. It predates KERI. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-reputation-algorithms-self-sovereign-data | Talks and presentations talk | Reputation Algorithms for Self-Sovereign Data: Issues and Technical Directions | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ReputationAlgorithms.pdf | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Founder, Xaltry'} | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2016-10 | 2016 | intro | 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 (Founder, Xaltry) on reputation as a contextual, behavior-based predictor of future behavior for self-sovereign data, covering measurement theory, uncertainty types and elastic-constraint decision making. It predates KERI and is not about it. | {'name': 'Samuel M. Smith', 'affiliation': 'Founder, Xaltry'} | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-why-blockchain-2016 | Talks and presentations talk | Why BlockChain: The disruptive disintermediation of infrastructure with blockchain technology | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/BlockChain.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2016-07 | 2016 | intro | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 37-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith, founder of ProSapien, on blockchain technology as diffuse trust and disintermediation. It covers distributed consensus types, platform business models, Byzantine agreement, modern cryptography (ECC, secret sharing, NaCl), RAET, smart contracts, and graph-based identity and reputation. It predates KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| papers-distributed-consensus-diffuse-trust | Talks and presentations talk | Distributed Consensus and Diffuse Trust Systems | https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/DistributedConsensus.web.pdf | Samuel M. Smith | no change in six to eighteen months; still correct quiet | 2026-10-15 | practitioner | an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite informative | anyone with the link public | A 39-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on distributed consensus as the basis of diffuse trust systems. It explains Byzantine agreement and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) in detail, with quorum sizing, view changes and implementations, and backup slides on blockchains, elliptic curve cryptography, identity and key management. It is not about KERI. | Samuel M. Smith | SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations) smith-papers | 1 | 0 |
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