kerigo

README

The KERI Working Group is no longer active under DIF. Ongoing KERI work has moved to the Web of Trust GitHub repository.

KERIGO (archived at DIF)

Go implementation of KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure)

Introduction

KERIGO is an open source go implementation of the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) , a system designed to provide a secure identifier-based trust spanning layer for any stack. The current version of the KERI paper can be found here.

KERI provides the same security and verifiability properties for transactions as a blockchain or distributed ledger can, without the overhead of requiring an absolute global ordering of transactions. Because of this, there is no need for a cannonical chain and thus there is no "KERI Chain" or "KERI Network". KERI Identifiers can be generated independantly in a self-sovereign and privacy-preserving manner and are secured via a self-certifying post-quantum resistant key management scheme based on blinded pre-rotation, auditable and flexible key events and a distributed conflict resolution algorithm called KAACE.

Features

Currently work is focused on providing a libray that implements the core logic and data structures for creating and interacting with KERI infrastructure. A future goal is to implement runnable services that make up the actual KERI infrastructure (Witnesses, Validators, etc.).