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# From KERI to vLEI: Building Verifiable Organizational Identity

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.

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Source: https://youtu.be/su3gifwFW64 (license not recorded).
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