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# Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): A secure identifier overlay for the internet – Sam Smith – Webinar 58

SSIMeetup webinar 58, in which Samuel M. Smith presents KERI as a ledgerless decentralized key management infrastructure and a secure identifier overlay for the internet. The page carries an embedded YouTube video and links to the slides, under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license, and suits newcomers who want the 2020 introduction from the author.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://ssimeetup.org/key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-secure-identifier-overlay-internet-sam-smith-webinar-58/ (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/).