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title: "Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI"
maintainer: "Ryan W. West; Samuel M. Smith"
authors:
  - "Ryan W. West"
  - "Samuel M. Smith"
date: "2021-02"
year: 2021
reading_level: "implementer"
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evidence: "informative"
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status: "quiet"
status_meaning: "no change in six to eighteen months; still correct"
access: "public"
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topics:
  - "infrastructure"
  - "prototypes"
roles:
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  - "security-architect"
  - "infrastructure-operator"
  - "researcher"
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abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Keridemlia: A Discovery Mechanism for KERI

A short paper describing Keridemlia, a prototype discovery service for KERI that maps controller identifiers to witness identifiers and witnesses to IP addresses using a modified Kademlia distributed hash table, with its design, API, verification approach, optimizations and related work.

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