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Each user owns one or more RSA key pairs, and every nanopublication is signed with one of the user's private keys. The signature and the corresponding public key are included in the nanopublication itself (in its publication info graph), so anyone can verify that a nanopublication was indeed created by the holder of that key and was not modified afterwards. Users do not need to manage these keys manually: tools like <a href="https://nanodash.knowledgepixels.com/">Nanodash</a> take care of generating and handling the key pairs behind the scenes.</p> <p>The link between a key pair and a user identity is itself established with a nanopublication: an <em>introduction</em> nanopublication declares that a given public key belongs to a given agent, identified by an IRI. A user can thereby have several key pairs linked to the same identity, for example one per tool or device. Typically the identifier is an <a href="https://orcid.org/">ORCID</a> ID, and Nanodash currently requires an ORCID login. Nanopublications in general, however, are not restricted to ORCID: any IRI denoting an agent can be used, as is the case for example for software agents (bots) publishing under their own identities and keys.</p> <p>Whether other users should <em>trust</em> an identity is a separate concern, handled by the network's trust layer, where users endorse each other's introductions and services compute from this who is part of the trust network.</p> https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/provenance https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/assertion http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasAttributedTo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234 https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/pubinfo https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://purl.org/dc/terms/created 2026-06-11T06:50:46Z https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234 https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://purl.org/dc/terms/license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasNanopubType http://schema.org/Question https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://purl.org/nanopub/x/supersedes https://w3id.org/np/RAG1KXlO_EGH4TBmpFKZISuVEQDpK51fIuAIk7om3kFzQ https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label FAQ: How do users authenticate in the nanopublication system? https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromProvenanceTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RA7lSq6MuK_TIC6JMSHvLtee3lpLoZDOqLJCLXevnrPoU https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RACJ58Gvyn91LqCKIO9zu1eijDQIeEff28iyDrJgjSJF8 https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAoTD7udB2KtUuOuAe74tJi1t3VzK0DyWS7rYVAq1GRvw https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromPubinfoTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAukAcWHRDlkqxk7H2XNSegc1WnHI569INvNr-xdptDGI https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/o/ntemplate/wasCreatedFromTemplate https://w3id.org/np/RAUneCxaT_JQhs4XK8yFhSm5JGmAMgn8k6zBkWB2pp3BI https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasAlgorithm RSA https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasPublicKey MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCwUtewGCpT5vIfXYE1bmf/Uqu1ojqnWdYxv+ySO80ul8Gu7m8KoyPAwuvaPj0lvPtHrg000qMmkxzKhYknEjq8v7EerxZNYp5B3/3+5ZpuWOYAs78UnQVjbHSmDdmryr4D4VvvNIiUmd0yxci47dTFUj4DvfHnGd6hVe5+goqdcwIDAQAB https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasSignature MyvFxcySuaj+VTuYQ1p46EFzfr1FVAA25CiFOaz/d3vz1S0GHKNJ3wan4r6IegJs9zUMKShKbcA7iWT63rV+RYHNN09WrRtBJNuJk56dgaSH0mdpbMR+zkQDrOaOnTcvHcWRCXOVWqmxiLLi0zb4HVfWAOvP9yRU7h8sFM17zI0= https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/hasSignatureTarget https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8 https://w3id.org/np/RAm20bfp7mAU2uQ-t7enL4_Ps2eC8Ry4r79COUhbVlwi8/sig http://purl.org/nanopub/x/signedBy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-0234