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date: "2019-10-01"
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# KERI: Universal DKMI, Decentralized Root-of-Trust, Last Mile

A 10-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) Fall 2019, 2019/10/01, introducing KERI as a universal DKMI (decentralized key management infrastructure). It covers the human basis of trust, cryptographic root of trust from a random seed, and consistent attribution with duplicity detection, with a background reading list.

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_RootOfTrust_IIW_2019_B.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/).