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Anything that solves the same problems will end up looking like KERI under the hood.",[230,238],{"name":239,"question":240,":options":241,"correct":242,"explanation":243},"highlights-quiz-2","What regulation, introduced in 2018, made persistent identity on a blockchain ledger legally problematic?","['CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)', 'eIDAS (EU electronic IDentification And trust Services)', 'GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)', 'HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)']","GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)","GDPR introduced a right to erasure that conflicts with immutable blockchain ledgers. This was a key factor in ending the ledger wars and pointing toward KERI's per-identifier Key Event Log approach.",[230,245],{"name":246,"question":247,":options":248,"correct":249,"explanation":250},"highlights-quiz-3","What core innovation in the 2019 KERI white paper eliminated the need for shared governance and ledger wars?","['A globally shared zero-knowledge accumulator for all identifiers', 'A cryptographically verifiable, append-only event log for each identifier', 'Anchoring every identifier to a permissioned consortium ledger', 'Using DNS as the sole root of trust for all key events']","A cryptographically verifiable, append-only event log for each identifier","The KERI V1 paper gave each identifier its own Key Event Log. With one log per identifier and no shared governance, the ledger wars became unnecessary.",[230,252],{"name":253,"question":254,":options":255,"correct":256,"explanation":257},"highlights-quiz-4","According to Samuel Smith, what does the 'I' in KERI emphasize?","['Integration with existing OAuth providers', 'Infrastructure — open, web-scalable key management that people can practically adopt', 'Interoperability through a single global blockchain', 'Identity as a service offered by one vendor']","Infrastructure — open, web-scalable key management that people can practically adopt","The KERI Foundation's mission is to foster open infrastructure. KERI does not work in practice without infrastructure, and it was designed to be web-scalable with an ultra-low cost floor.",[230,259],{"name":260,"question":261,":options":262,"correct":263,"explanation":264},"highlights-quiz-5","What does Samuel Smith mean by 'all of KERI or no KERI'?","['You must use every KERI wallet simultaneously', 'Partial adoption of individual KERI features still leaves vulnerabilities — the full protocol is required', 'KERI only works if every person on Earth adopts it at once', 'KERI cannot interoperate with any other identity system']","Partial adoption of individual KERI features still leaves vulnerabilities — the full protocol is required","Mottos like Keys at the Edge or Signed Everything each capture one viewpoint, like blind men describing an elephant. 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