出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Trust is an absolute necessity for digital communications; but is often viewed as an implicitsingular entity. The use of the internet as the primary vehicle for information exchange hasmade accountability and verifiability of system code almost obsolete. This paper proposes anovel approach towards enforcing system security by requiring the explicit definition of trust forall operating code. By identifying the various classes and levels of trust required within acomputing system; trust is defined as a combination of individual characteristics. Trust is thenrepresented as a calculable metric obtained through the collective enforcement of each of thesecharacteristics to varying degrees. System Security is achieved by facilitating trust to be aconstantly evolving aspect for each operating code segment capable of getting stronger orweaker over time.
