Walking the web of trust

被引：59

作者：

Caronni, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Sun Microsyst Inc, Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA

来源：

IEEE 9TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES, PROCEEDINGS | 2000年

关键词：

web of trust; PKI; heuristic trust calculation;

D O I：

10.1109/ENABL.2000.883720

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

Most currently deployed Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) are hierarchically oriented and rely on a centralized design. Hierarchical PKIs may be appropriate solutions for many usage-scenarios, but there exists the viable alternative of the 'Web of Trust'. In a web of trust, each user of the system can choose for himself whom he elects to trust, and whom not. After contrasting the properties of web-of-trust based PKIs to those of hierarchical PKIs, an introduction to webs of trust and to quantitative trust calculations is given. The paper concludes with the presentation of an efficient, sub-exponential algorithm that allows heuristic computations of trust paths in a web of trust.

引用

页码：153 / 158

页数：4