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title: "Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC): Verifiable Data Structures (Graphs) that support Authenticatable Attestations & Credentials"
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date: "2022-09-15"
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# Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC): Verifiable Data Structures (Graphs) that support Authenticatable Attestations & Credentials

A 113-slide overview of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) by Samuel M. Smith, dated 2022-09-15 and filed for the W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC). It covers ACDC sections and field labels, chained ACDCs with GLEIF vLEI credential examples, graduated and contractually protected disclosure, the IPEX exchange protocol, the PAC theorem, and economic arguments about correlation and privacy.

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/ACDC_Overview_W3CTPAC.web.pdf (license not recorded).
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