Solving Global PKI, Decentralized Identity, and Provable Provenance all At Once
summary
A concrete system for provable, mutable key histories and offchain provenance using IPLD provenance logs that store sequenced events, backlinks, and WebAssembly lock/unlock scripts in the Wack VM. It builds a stable identifier called a Vlad (CID plus ephemeral signature), a new DHT (IPNS v3) to map old pubkeys to the log head, and a BetterSign tool plus Rust implementations. Practical claims: 200 peers gives only ~59% pairwise uptime without link-style recovery; the demo runs and specs are released.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:07Decentralization and user sovereignty
- 8:35Self-healing links and URLs
- 12:04Provenance logs and key history
- 20:29Decentralized Keybase demo
- 25:08Very Long Live Addresses (VLADs)
- 30:45Live demo of better sign
- 33:35Specifications and licensing model
- 35:19Q&A and community access
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