Walking the Web of Trust

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

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: WETICE
• Authors: Germano Caronni
• Keywords: Centralized Design, Emerging Technology, Hierarchical PKIs, Public Key Infrastructures, WETICE 2000