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title: "KERI is for Humans (PKI is for machines and not humans: Key Event Receipt Infrastructure)"
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source_url: "https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/pki-is-for-machines-and-not-humans-key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-226046085fac"
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# KERI is for Humans (PKI is for machines and not humans: Key Event Receipt Infrastructure)

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.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence unverified (a third party's account not checked against a primary source).
Source: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/pki-is-for-machines-and-not-humans-key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-226046085fac (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/).