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Last updated: October 7, 2025
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A disclosee is the entity or role that receives an [ACDC](/concept/acdc) (Authentic Chained Data Container) during a [presentation exchange](/concept/presentation-exchange). The disclosee is the recipient party in credential disclosure workflows, distinct from the [discloser](/concept/discloser) who presents the credential.
A disclosee is formally defined as the entity to which an ACDC is disclosed during a presentation exchange. In the KERI/ACDC credential ecosystem, the disclosee represents the receiving party in any credential disclosure interaction, whether that disclosure is an initial issuance or a subsequent presentation for verification.
Key characteristics of the disclosee role:
Within presentation exchanges, the disclosee serves as the verifying party or relying party who receives and validates disclosed credentials. The ACDC specification establishes that presentation exchanges involve disclosure of one or more ACDCs between a discloser and disclosee, where the disclosed ACDCs form a structure.
When implementing systems with disclosee roles, consider:
The disclosee role integrates with:
In issuance exchanges—a special case of presentation exchange—the disclosee MAY also be the issuee of the origin ACDC. This creates a direct issuance pattern where credentials are issued directly to their intended holders. However, this alignment is optional; credentials may be disclosed to parties other than their subjects.
The disclosee role is central to privacy mechanisms in the ACDC ecosystem:
Chain-link confidentiality: Chains together sequences of disclosees where each recipient inherits and must maintain confidentiality constraints established by the original discloser. When a disclosee becomes a discloser to a subsequent party, the original usage constraints propagate through the chain.
Graduated disclosure: Enables disclosers to progressively reveal credential information to disclosees as trust develops, sharing only what is necessary at each stage while maintaining cryptographic verifiability.
Contractually protected disclosure: Allows disclosers to impose legal obligations on disclosees regarding how disclosed information may be used, stored, and further disclosed.
A critical privacy concern for disclosees is unpermissioned correlation—when a disclosee establishes correlation between multiple disclosed ACDCs without the discloser's permission. This represents a privacy boundary violation that ACDC privacy mechanisms aim to prevent through selective disclosure and blinding techniques.