[635] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape Changes RSA tree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Apr 26 04:51:50 1995
To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, rens@imsi.com, wcs@anchor.ho.att.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:56:37 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>> We believe that there will be multiple hierarchies, and that you have
>> to decide which one(s) you trust. We also think that one hierarchy
>> should be able to set up a "trust-link" for those who trust it stating
>> what degree of trust the (possibly distributed) authority for that
>> hierarchy places in the other hierarchy.
>>
>> I think this amounts to the "web-of-trust"; please correct me if I've
>> misinterpreted.
I'm not convinced. In graph theoretical terms, the web of trust is an
arbitrary digraph. A heirarchy is a tree. What is your system?
(Of course, I'm a computer engineer, not a mathematician, so if I got
these terms wrong, someone please correct me.)
Marc
