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Research Keri - A New Solution for Self-Certifying Identifiers #40

Open wip-abramson opened 4 years ago

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

What?

Keri stands for Key Event Receipt Infrastructure that seems promising. It enables the creation of public and private identifiers that do not necessarily have to be rooted to a distributed ledger. It may be more flexible and hence desirable for OM usecases.

Looking for someone to really dive into this, ideally attending this weekly call - https://identity.foundation/working-groups/identifiers-discovery.html at 4pm CET.

Code is currently in development in a number of different languages and it would be great to get a sense of what Keri is capable of both today and as the project progresses.

How long?

Initially 3-6 months

Is your research related to a problem?

To be able to leverage public-key cryptography we need a key management solution that is scalable and secure, providing a means for identifiers correlated to entities and trusted. Keri seems like a promising solution.

Additional Context

There are plenty of resources to get started, this is a pretty comprehensive list:

Libraries in development: