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title: "KERI and Key: how I learned to stop worrying and love the log (LF Decentralized Trust deck)"
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date: "2025-11-26"
year: 2025
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# KERI and Key: how I learned to stop worrying and love the log (LF Decentralized Trust deck)

A slide deck motivating KERI through global fraud, zero trust and certificate transparency, with GLEIF's use as the example; the first slides were read on 21 October 2026.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/hubfs/KERI%20and%20Key%20(1).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/).