---
id: "smith-papers"
type: "paper"
type_label: "Papers and paper collections"
title: "SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations)"
maintainer: "Samuel M. Smith"
authors: []
date: null
year: null
reading_level: "practitioner"
reading_level_label: "Practitioner"
reading_level_meaning: "architects, product people and adopters who know identity systems"
evidence: "informative"
evidence_meaning: "an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite"
status: "active"
status_meaning: "changed within the last six months, or a live service"
access: "public"
access_meaning: "anyone with the link"
topics:
  - "theory"
roles:
  - "security-architect"
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers"
source_license: "Apache-2.0"
source_license_note: "LICENSE in SmithSamuelM/Papers: Apache 2.0 unless otherwise indicated, copyright Samuel M. Smith, ProSapien LLC (read 2026-11-03)"
found_on: "keri-one-resources"
kerisse_credit: true
abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
abstract_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
abstract_attribution: "KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/)"
last_checked: "2026-11-04"
kskb_url: "https://kskb.dev/cards/smith-papers/"
kskb_app_url: "https://kskb.dev/#item/smith-papers"
kskb_record_url: "https://kskb.dev/data/kskb/resources/smith-papers"
kskb_markdown_url: "https://kskb.dev/export/cards/smith-papers.md"
---

# SmithSamuelM/Papers (whitepapers and presentations)

Samuel M. Smith's GitHub repository of white papers and presentations ("White Papers etc"), created in 2016 and still updated in 2026. Its whitepapers folder holds the KERI white papers, papers from Rebooting the Web of Trust, ACDC, Secure Privacy, Authenticity, Confidentiality (SPAC) and Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) drafts, reputation papers and an archive of older KERI material; its presentations folder holds the slide decks listed on a separate card. A primary source for the theory behind the KERI Suite.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers (license Apache-2.0).
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/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.