About This Archive

Papers

• Amplifying Difference: Perceptual Design and Verification of Human-Centric Entropy Visualizations (2026-06-22)
• Measuring the Glance: An Adversarial Estimate of Habituated Perceptual Entropy in entviz and SSH Randomart (2026-06-22)
• Cross-File Associations (CFAs): A Lightweight, Decentralized Model for Expressing File Relationships (2025-12-18)
• Syntelos: A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Intent in Digital Interactions (2025-12-11)
• Intent and Boundaries: A Framework for Digital Agency (2025-12-11)
• KERI’s Strategy for Post-Quantum Security (2025-11-01)
• Bytewise and Externalized SAIDs (2024-08-01)
• Privacy-Preserving Discovery (PPreD) (2017-01-01)

Specifications

• entviz — Algorithm Specification (2026-05-27)
• Verifiable Dossiers (2025-10-01)
• Conventions for Opaque Identifier Aliases (COIA) (2025-08-28)
• Verifiable Voice Protocol (VVP) (2025-02-01)
• Canonical Quoted Text (2023-06-01)
• Cross-File Associations (2022-09-01)
• DIDComm Messaging (2022-05) — co-inventor and one of two principal authors (DIF)
• W3C DID Method Rubric (2021) — co-editor
• Peer DID Method Specification (2019-07) — sole inventor and author (DIF)
• W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID Core) (2019-07) — Invited Expert; authored the Immutability security-considerations section
• W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model (2018-10) — Invited Expert; introduced ‘tamper-evident’ terminology and the credential/presentation distinction
• Hyperledger Aries RFCs (2017-11) — founder and single largest contributor; 47 RFCs authored or co-authored (DIDComm v1, Protocols, Decorators, Attachments, and more)

Analyses

• Who Is Signing? (2026-02-07)
• Signing Doesn’t Always Claim Authorship (2026-02-07)
• Authenticity vs. Veracity (2025-12-28)
• Analysis of did:cel Heartbeat: Relevance to KERI (2025-12-20)
• 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)
• The Evidence Lifecycle in Telco (2025-08-07)
• Why Anchored Signatures? (2025-02-20)
• Zooko and Houdini: A Flatland Parable (2024-06-20)
• Sentries, Confessionals, Vaults, and Envelopes (2023-01-18)
• Three Dimensions of Identity (2019-01-29)

Comparisons

• Where Trust Bottoms Out: X.509, Certificate Transparency, and KERI’s DPKI Architecture (2026-03-05)
• Comparison: ACDCs and Merkle Tree Certificates (2026-01-06)
• ACDCs and W3C VCs: Lossless vs. Lossy (2025-11-24)
• How SD-JWT and ACDC are similar and different (2024-11-15)

Guidance

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

Positions

• What Does Telco Need? Requirements for Organizational Identity Evidence (2026-03-11)
• Why X509 Certs Should Be Secondary Evidence of Org Identity (2024-11-15)
• AI User Code of Conduct (2023-06-01)
• Big Desks and Little People (2023-05-01)
• Actors, Objects, and Linked Data (2022-11-16)
• A Call for Reciprocal Negotiated Accountability (2021-01-15)