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key event receipt infrastructure

Definition​

Also KERI. It's a new approach to decentralized identifiers and decentralized key management that promises significant benefits for SSI (self-sovereign identity) and ToIP (Trust over IP) infrastructure.
(@drummondreed)

KERI is an identifier system that fixes the internet. It's a fully decentralized permission-less key management architecture. It solves the secure attribution problem to its identifiers and allows portability.
(@henkvancann)

Trust spanning layer for the internet​

While attribution has always been a non-exact science, we could come as close to attribution as “beyond a reasonable doubt”, those days are over with KERI.
KERI provides a trust spanning layer for the internet, because the protocol solves the secure attribution problem in a general, portable, fully decentralized way. There are more types of trust IN KERI but they all depend on the most important attributive trust. From KERI we've learned that secure attribution is the essential problem for any identifier system to solve.