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title: "Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet"
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date: "2021-04-23"
year: 2021
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  - "infrastructure-operator"
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# Key Event Receipt Infrastructure: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet

A 208-slide overview deck (version 2.60) that accompanies the KERI white paper, covering the secure attribution problem, self-certifying identifiers, trust bases, delegation, verifiable data registries, event formats, witness agreement, security considerations and CESR encoding. It suits readers who want the white paper's argument in diagrams before reading the full paper.

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