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KERI Glossary Crossword

Test your knowledge of the KERI Suite — from AIDs and KELs to CESR, ACDC, and beyond. Terms drawn from the Trust over IP KERI Suite Glossary.

How well do you know the KERI ecosystem? This crossword draws from the KERI Suite Glossary maintained by the Trust over IP Foundation.

Each attempt presents 20 randomly selected terms from the full pool of 70+ glossary entries — so you can replay and discover new vocabulary every time.

Brush up on the terms

Not sure about a clue? The full glossary lives at trustoverip.github.io/kerisuite-glossary. Some highlights to get you started:

  • AID — Autonomic IDentifier, the self-certifying identifier at the heart of KERI
  • CESR — Composable Event Streaming Representation, the encoding protocol
  • KEL — Key Event Log, the signed append-only ledger of identity events
  • ACDC — Authentic Chained Data Container, the KERI-native verifiable credential format
  • OOBI — Out-Of-Band Introduction, the discovery mechanism pairing an AID with a URL
  • SAID — Self-Addressing IDentifier, derived cryptographically from its own content
  • TOAD — Threshold Of Accountable Duplicity, the minimum witness signature count
  • IPEX — Issuance and Presentation EXchange, the ACDC exchange protocol
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