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+# Constitutional Committee Credential Management System
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+The Constitutional Committee Credential Management System is a suite of Plutus
+scripts and tools for managing Cardano constitutional committee credentials
+with an X.509 certificate chain. It provides the following features:
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+* Separation of capabilities between user roles
+* Multi-signature authorization of on-chain governance transactions
+* Key rotation without modifying registered committee credentials
+* Publicly verifiable authorization of on-chain activity via certificates
+
+## Documentation
+
+User manual: <a href="https://credential-manager.readthedocs.io/" target="_blank">https://credential-manager.readthedocs.io/</a>
+