Research Keri - A New Solution for Self-Certifying Identifiers

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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:

• https://keri.one/keri-resources/

Libraries in development:

• Python
• Rust