Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): A secure identifier overlay for the internet – Sam Smith – Webinar 58
Samuel M. Smith will present KERI that stands for Key Event Receipt Infrastructure. Its a ledger-less approach to identity that enables a universal decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI). KERI is the basis for a new proposed universal DID method DID:uni. Because KERI identifiers are portable they are truly self-sovereign. The primary root-of-trust in KERI is a self-certifying identifier that is cryptographically bound to a set of key-pairs. These have fully generalized derivation mechanisms including content addressability with support for both rotatable and non-rotatable key-pairs. Its secondary root-of-trust are end-verifiable key event receipt logs. End verifiability means that KERI is not dependent on any intervening infrastructure. This fixes the primary security weakness of internet identity system security overlays thereby making KERI a candidate for a universal trust spanning layer for the internet to replace DNS-CA. KERI is an open-source project within the Decentralized Identity Foundation.
Samuel M. Smith Ph.D. works at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and decentralized computing systems as both an entrepreneur and strategic consultant. He has written and continues to write seminal white papers on decentralized identity, reputation AI, distributed computing, and tokenomics. He provides strategic technical and business model guidance to startups in these fields and is active in shaping the underlying standards and driving their adoption. Samuel received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1991. He spent 10 years at Florida Atlantic University, reaching full professor status before retiring to become an entrepreneur. He has over 100 refereed publications in the areas of machine learning, autonomous vehicle systems, automated reasoning, and decentralized systems. He was principal investigator on numerous federally funded research projects. Dr. Smith is an active participant in open standards development and is a serial entrepreneur.
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