About This Archive

Specifications

• Canonical Quoted Text (2023-06-01)
• Conventions for Opaque Identifier Aliases (COIA) (2025-08-28)
• Cross-File Associations (2022-09-01)
• Verifiable Voice Protocol (VVP) (2025-02-01)

Papers

• Bytewise and Externalized SAIDs (2024-08-01)
• Cross-File Associations (CFAs): A Lightweight, Decentralized Model for Expressing File Relationships (2025-12-18)
• Intent and Boundaries: A Framework for Digital Agency (2025-12-11)
• KERI’s Strategy for Post-Quantum Security (2025-11-01)
• Privacy-Preserving Discovery (PPreD) (2017-01-01)
• Syntelos: A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Intent in Digital Interactions (2025-12-11)

Analyses

• Analysis of did:cel Heartbeat: Relevance to KERI (2025-12-20)
• Authenticity vs. Veracity (2025-12-28)
• Intent and Boundaries (2025-06-20)
• Security, Silos, and Sovereignty (2021-03-12)
• The Dangerous Half-Truth of “We’ll Be Correlated Anyway” (2020-04-05)

Primers

• A Primer on KERI, ACDCs, and CESR (2025-12-19)
• Sentries, Confessionals, Vaults, and Envelopes (2023-01-18)
• The Evidence Lifecycle in Telco (2025-08-07)
• Three Dimensions of Identity (2019-01-29)
• Why Anchored Signatures? (2025-02-20)
• Zooko and Houdini: A Flatland Parable (2024-06-20)

Comparisons

• ACDCs and W3C VCs: Lossless vs. Lossy (2025-11-24)
• Comparison: ACDCs and Merkle Tree Certificates (2026-01-06)
• How SD-JWT and ACDC are similar and different (2024-11-15)

Guidance

• Advice About Cybersecurity and Privacy (2023-06-06)
• The Coming Tsunami of Falsehood (2024-06-01)

Positions

• A Call for Reciprocal Negotiated Accountability (2021-01-15)
• Actors, Objects, and Linked Data (2022-11-16)
• AI User Code of Conduct (2023-06-01)
• Big Desks and Little People (2023-05-01)
• Why X509 Certs Should Be Secondary Evidence of Org Identity (2024-11-15)