---
date: 2020-11-22
name: KERI
layout: standards
headings: ["Main","About","Organization","Technology","Presentations","Literature; Self-Certifying Identifiers","Literature; Autonomic Identifiers","Literature; Certificate Transparency","Assorted"]
title: KERI - Key Event Receipt Infrastructure
description: The first truly fully decentralized identity system.
excerpt: >
  An identity system based secure overlay for the Internet is presented. This includes a primary root-of-trust in self-certifying identifiers. It presents a formalism for Autonomic Identifiers (AIDs) and Autonomic Namespaces (ANs). They are part of an Autonomic Identity System (AIS). This system uses the design principle of minimally sufficient means to provide a candidate trust spanning layer for the internet. Associated with this system is a decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI).
permalink: /projects/gleif/keri/
redirect_from: 
  - organizations/identity-foundation/keri/
canonical_url: 'https://decentralized-id.com/projects/web-of-trust/keri/'
categories: ["Open Source Projects"]
tags: ["DIF","KERI","DKMI","RWoT","GLEIF"]
header: 
  image: /images/keri-header.webp
  teaser: /images/keri-teaser.webp
last_modified_at: 2023-06-03
---