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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>Sanad: news</title><subtitle>Changes to the Sanad specification, website and project.</subtitle><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/news/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><id>https://sanadprotocol.org/</id><updated>2026-11-07T00:00:00Z</updated><author><name>Arash Kermani Kolankeh</name></author>
<entry><title>Reference implementation and test vectors published</title><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-reference" rel="alternate"/><id>https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-reference</id><updated>2026-11-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>The repository contains a dependency-free reference implementation, 15 recognition vectors and 5 inference vectors, and a command-line verifier (node reference/verify.mjs).</summary></entry>
<entry><title>Specification draft v0.1 prepared</title><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-draft" rel="alternate"/><id>https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-draft</id><updated>2026-11-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>The first draft of the Sanad specification (data model, recognition function, transparency log, privacy and threats) has been written and is open for discussion. It has not been reviewed by a standards body, a lawyer or an external cryptographer.</summary></entry>
<entry><title>Name and legal form decided</title><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-name" rel="alternate"/><id>https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-name</id><updated>2026-11-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>The protocol is called Sanad. The Open Sanad Foundation is to be established in the United Arab Emirates; until it exists, Dr. Arash Kermani Kolankeh acts as interim steward.</summary></entry>
<entry><title>Website published in draft</title><link href="https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-site" rel="alternate"/><id>https://sanadprotocol.org/news/#2026-11-07-site</id><updated>2026-11-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>sanadprotocol.org is online in English, with a draft translation in German. It uses no cookies, no analytics and no external requests.</summary></entry>
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