Trust Management on the World Wide Web

Abstract As once-proprietary mission-specific information systems migrate onto the Web, traditional security analysis cannot sufficiently protect each subsystem atomically. The Web encourages open. decentralized systems that span multiple administrative domains. Trust Management is an emerging framework for decentralizing security decisions that helps developers and others in asking “why” trust is granted rather than immediately focusing on “how” cryptography can enforce it. In this poster, we summarize the implications of Trust Management to future Web applications.