cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between...
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The Web Science Trust (WST) is a UK Charitable Trust with the aim of supporting the global development of Web science. It was originally started in 2006...
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Public key infrastructure (section Web of trust)
certificates, as a trusted introducer. If the "web of trust" is completely trusted then, because of the nature of a web of trust, trusting one certificate...
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enforce a security policy Web of trust, a system used in cryptography to establish authenticity WOT Services or Web of trust, a crowdsourced Internet website...
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Thawte (section Web of Trust)
Gossamer Spider Web of Trust ("GSWoT"; a grass-roots OpenPGP PKI) for safe-keeping in hopes to increase the longevity of their earned trust points. The collaborative...
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Pretty Good Privacy (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2024)
e-mail address. The first version of this system was generally known as a web of trust to contrast with the X.509 system, which uses a hierarchical approach...
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built-in list of self-signed root certificates to act as trust anchors for applications. The Firefox web browser also provides its own list of trust anchors...
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Certification Practice Statement (section Web of trust)
authority or a member of a web of trust which describes their practice for issuing and managing public key certificates. Some elements of a CPS include documenting...
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CAcert.org (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from December 2020)
certificate: Debian openSUSE To create higher-trust certificates, users can participate in a web of trust system whereby users physically meet and verify...
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Key exchange (section Web of trust)
by assorted certificate authorities. At the other end of the conceptual range is the web of trust system, which avoids central Certificate Authorities...
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WOT Services (redirect from WOT: Web of Trust)
developer of MyWOT (also known as WOT and Web of Trust), an online reputation and Internet safety service which shows indicators of trust about existing...
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authority and instead uses a distributed web of trust approach. Key signing parties are a way to strengthen the web of trust. Participants at a key signing party...
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The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly...
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facilitating trust modelling, specifically for large scale models that represent trust as an abstract system (e.g. social network or web of trust). Consequently...
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In trust law, a spendthrift trust is a trust that is created for the benefit of a person (often unable to control his/her spending) that gives an independent...
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blogging, a generic web of trust for decentralized spam resistance, Shoeshop for using Freenet over sneakernet, and many more. The origin of Freenet can be...
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Public key certificate (redirect from Trusted root store)
charges customers a fee to issue certificates for them. By contrast, in a web of trust scheme, individuals sign each other's keys directly, in a format that...
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signee. This enables someone who trusts the signer to extend her trust to the signee as well. In this way, a web of trust is built. PGP users often organize...
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provide a PEM file containing a list of trusted CA certificates, each of which in its own BEGIN/END sections; A web server might be configured with a "chain"...
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individually transmit public keys and can act as the root of a chain of trust. The first web-based PGP keyserver was written for a thesis by Marc Horowitz...
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certificate chains for a description of these concepts in a widely used standard for digital certificates. Root of trust Web of trust "How Certificate Chains Work"...
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Forward anonymity (section Web of Trust)
does not compromise the anonymity of the system. A variation of the public key cryptography system is a Web of trust, where each user has both a public...
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Public-key cryptography (redirect from Applications of public-key cryptography)
ownership of key pairs. TLS relies upon this. This implies that the PKI system (software, hardware, and management) is trust-able by all involved. A "web of trust"...
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Cross-site request forgery (category Web security exploits)
type of malicious exploit of a website or web application where unauthorized commands are submitted from a user that the web application trusts. There...
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without the complex procedure of obtaining a personal certificate which are vulnerable to CA Compromise. Compared to Web of Trust, TOFU has less maintenance...
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A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit...
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for well-known domains to those who don't own those domains. Trusting a large number of CAs might be a problem because any breached CA could issue a certificate...
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World Wide Web. Another common use is in issuing identity cards by national governments for use in electronically signing documents. Trusted certificates...
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