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date: "2021-01-17"
year: 2021
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# Thinking of DID? KERI On

A Human Colossus Foundation blog post by Robert Mitwicki on the growing number of W3C DID methods and the interoperability, scalability and security concerns they raise. It argues that a weak binding between a DID and its DID document leaves security gaps and proposes KERI as a uniform, self-certifying basis that ties identifiers to verifiable event logs. For readers comparing DID methods.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/thinking-of-did-keri-on (license not recorded).
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Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.