Abstract:This paper describes a prototype of a new authentication paradigm using X.509 certificates but with a new trust model. This paradigm provides a scalable anti-phishing solution to identity management helping legal entities such as government or businesses. This paradigm explicitly gives up the goal of "Global Trust" -trust is always "Local". In everyday life, a user cares only about specific communities, so the idea is to provide necessary and sufficient identification to a particular user. By explicitly limiti… Show more
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