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title: "Quest for the Mnemon Seed. The Three R's of Key Management: Reproduction, Rotation, and Recovery. DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data). Derived-DID"
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date: "2018-04-04"
year: 2018
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  - "cryptography"
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  - "communications"
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/QuestForTheMnemonSeed_IIW_20180404.pdf"
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# Quest for the Mnemon Seed. The Three R's of Key Management: Reproduction, Rotation, and Recovery. DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data). Derived-DID

A 35-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) on 2018.04.04, presenting DAD (Decentralized Autonomic Data) and the three R's of key management (reproduction, rotation, recovery) from his RWOT (Rebooting the Web of Trust) Spring 2018 paper, and derived DIDs (decentralized identifiers). It is pre-KERI background on key rotation and recovery.

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/QuestForTheMnemonSeed_IIW_20180404.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/).