TRUST MANAGEMENT ON THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB

As once-proprietary mission-specific information systems migrate onto the Web, traditional security analysis cannot sufficiently protect eac h subsystem atomically. The Web encourages open, decentralized systems that span multiple administrative domains. Trust Management is an eme rging framework for decentralizing security decisions that helps devel opers and others in asking ''why'' trust is granted rather than immedi ately focusing on ''how'' cryptography can enforce it. In this poster, we summarize the implications of Trust Management to future Web appli cations. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserv ed.