News or events of interest to members:

• No meeting next week - We'll see you at IIW! Kevin Griffin 
  • Presentations:
    • Samuel Smith CESR Native Events in KERI
    • GLEIF: Probably only on ecosystem update
    • healthKERI - 5 rights of Secure Healthcare Data Exchange
    • Kent Bull - lessons learned on implementing issuer/hold/verify
    • Nuttawut Kongsuwan - KERI 101, introduction
    • Samuel Smith - Trust Spanning Protocol presentation
• NordLEI became the second Qualified vLEI Issuer! Kevin Griffin 

KERIpy, KERIA and SigPy

• Switched off of GitFlow branching model.  Now only one development branch called main .  PRs should be off of main  unless they are a patch in which case they should be off of the patch branch.

SigTS

• We will be making the same branch changes in the upcoming weeks

KERI Specification Kevin Griffin 

• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-keri-specification/issues
• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-keri-specification/pulls

ACDC Specification Kevin Griffin 

• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-acdc-specification/issues
• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-acdc-specification/pulls

CESR Specification Kevin Griffin 

• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-cesr-specification/issues
• https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-cesr-specification/pulls

• Sam Recommends "Means of Control" book. - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-control-by-byron-tau/
  • Context matters.  If you use any technology in an exchange, you can be re-identified
    • For example, the tire pressure sensors in your car broadcast unencrypted and anyone can capture
• Password length question: https://github.com/WebOfTrust/signify-ts/issues/242
  • Samuel Smith answered that the change from 22 to 21 occurred when we changed the padding approach in CESR.
• 20 Day Huddle for Specification Review
  • Lets do the huddle at IIW!
• @Erick - Is there compatibility with Blockchain?
  
  • KERI doesn't require blockchain but can be used as a secondary root of trust, as backers instead of witnesses
  • KERI uses pre-rotation to protect against key-compromise.  The main advantage of KERI is this protection.
  • https://github.com/weboftrust/cardano-backer
  • https://github.com/WebOfTrust/cardano-backer/issues/2