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title: "Security in KERI/ACDC (HackMD note)"
maintainer: "Samuel M. Smith"
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date: "2023"
year: 2023
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  - "cryptography"
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# Security in KERI/ACDC (HackMD note)

A HackMD note by Samuel Smith titled Security in KERI/ACDC, filed by KERISSE among its quick notes and dated 2023.

Labels: reading level Implementer; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://hackmd.io/zku3Dn8qQeub_58Q1ivKLA?view (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/).
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.