At the heart of the autonomous identity revolution
Funded development, guided by Dr. Samuel M. Smith, the creator of KERI.
Our site is dedicated to the promotion, development, and support of the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) protocol.
Co-founded by Sam Smith, the inventor of KERI, our foundation aims to create the infrastructure for the trust-spanning layer of the Internet, using the most open-source software license.
The foundation provides the financial resources to overcome any barriers.
Identity and Security
The problem with Internet security is that it’s based on flawed identity, and security experts don’t understand identity well enough to fix it.
The problem with Internet identity is that it’s based on flawed security, and identity experts don’t understand security well enough to fix it.
KERI’s design reflects a sufficient understanding of both security and identity to fix both Internet identity and Internet security at the same time.
~ Samuel Smith, August 2024
Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) is the first truly fully decentralized identity system.
Truly Decentralized Identity
KERI is the first truly decentralized identity system. It is ledger-less which means it doesn’t need to use a ledger at all or ledger-portable which means that its identifiers are not locked to any given ledger and may switch as needed. In other words KERI identifiers are truly portable.
KERI is inherently supportive of GDPR (global data protection rights) compliance. KERI provides non-intertwined identifier trust bases which means that a given identifier’s data may be erased and truly forgotten.
Self-Certifying Identifiers
KERI has a decentralized secure root-of-trust based on cryptographic self-certifying identifiers. It uses hash chained data structures called Key Event Logs that enable ambient cryptographic verifiability. In other words, any log may be verified anywhere at anytime by anybody. It has separable control over shared data which means each person or entity truly controls their own identifiers.
