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# IIW 31, 14A: Verifiable Trust Bases: How to make the web of trust new again with KERI

Session 14A of IIW 31 (Fall 2020, 20 to 22 October 2020), convened by Sam Smith: "Verifiable Trust Bases: How to make the web of trust new again with KERI". The notes are in the Book of Proceedings at page 201, and on the wiki's own notes page, kept by the Internet Archive.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence presenter-reported (a talk or meeting; what was said, not checked).
Source: https://d2aht360i32pos.cloudfront.net/past-proceedings/iiw/iiw-31-book-of-proceedings-xxxi-fall-2020.pdf#page=201 (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).