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title: "KERI for Muggles"
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date: "2020-10-20"
year: 2020
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source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_for_Muggles.pdf"
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# KERI for Muggles

A 52-slide introductory deck for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) #31, Day 1, Session #2, 20 October 2020, explaining KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) in seven plain-language steps. The deck names no author; its host says they volunteered to run the session, with Samuel M. Smith answering questions and Timothy Ruff giving background. For newcomers.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/KERI_for_Muggles.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/).