Interview - Fergal O'Connor

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0:00 – So, hello. My name is Fervil O'Connor. I'm the Identity Solutions Lead Architects

0:04 at the KERON Foundation. Over the last few years, I've been helping build out the

0:08 open source identity solution known as Beredium. Today, I gave a talk on the

0:13 KERIA and Signify TS security architecture. So, we delved into

0:17 operationally how KERIA works to be a cloud agent in… I should go back there. We

0:27 delved into how KERIA and Signify TS can enable stateless signing at the edge both

0:33 operationally, we delved into some architecture diagrams, and also from a

0:37 trust relationship point of view, delved into which keys to the where, who signs

0:43 what, and so forth, and how you can use KERIA and Signify to interact with the

0:46 entire world. I think one thing that we do differently is, you know, crunch. We're

0:51 trying to bring KERIA to the masses. It's essentially a set of cybersecurity

0:56 protocols that are very low level. What I've been trying to do with KERIA is to

1:01 take low level KERIA and make it accessible to, you know, individuals and

1:07 organizations alike in a way that's super streamlined and highly accessible. I think

1:13 my talk today on KERIA and Signify kind of relates to that in the sense that Signify

1:17 can provide a higher level API to developers as more accessible. Yeah, I

1:22 mean, if KERIA and Signify were to disappear, you know, everything we're

1:27 doing is built on open protocols. You don't have open protocols. You don't have

1:31 any lock-in to particular software stacks. You know, I'm sure the community would

1:36 find other ways and there already are existing other ways to create your KERIA

1:41 identifiers, interact with the world. This is just one particular implementation and

1:46 one flavor of that. And so if it disappears, you know, we would see

1:49 different flavors popping up from different organizations and different open

1:53 source communities. This is how sovereign at the end of the day.