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authentic web
Kor Dwarshuis edited this page Aug 22, 2024
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The authentic web is the internet as a whole giant verifiable data structure. Also called Web5. The web will be one big graph. That's the mental model of the 'authentic web'.
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Signed at rest- the data never throws away any signature of data. Because otherwise we can't validate data in the future -
Key state at rest- you need to solve this hard problem too. This is the hard problem KERI solves. -
Signed in motion- signatures get thrown away. You use ephemeral identifiers. You have to do everything anew every time you want to reconstruct a verifiable data structure. Therefore we need 'Signed at rest'.
- You can append to any part of the (directed-acyclic) graph
- You can hop into the graph to verify any fragment of the graph
- You don't have to sign the data,you just have to sign hashes of this data
- Every tree that gets integrated in this giant graph-forest has its own Root of Trust
KERI solves all hard problems of the authentic web in a scalable manner.
See more in Concepts behind KERI