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# The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI. Part 3: How do you use KERI?

The third part of the series, an implementer's reading and tooling guide: which papers and introductory materials to read, the four ToIP specifications (KERI, ACDC, CESR, did:webs) plus SAID and OOBI, the WebOfTrust open-source projects (KERIpy, Signify, KERIA, the browser extension), the KLI command line and building applications with Signify and KERIA. It is for people starting to build with KERI.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://medium.com/finema/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-3-how-do-you-use-keri-2d1724afa432 (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/).