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title: "Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC): Verifiable Credentials with Stuff"
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date: "2022-04-26"
year: 2022
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source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_Overview.web.pdf"
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# Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC): Verifiable Credentials with Stuff

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.

Labels: reading level Implementer; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC_Overview.web.pdf (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/).