Applicable Models for Trust Calculations (Re: Dempster-ShaferTheory and Belief Networks (Re: Transitive trust))

[E. ALLEN SMITH]

From:	IN%"reagle at MIT.EDU"  "Joseph M. Reagle Jr."  9-MAY-1996 18:30:11.78

>The very term "Web of Trust" makes one pause with respect to independent
>events.

	Quite. Keys signed by an individual who turns out to be untrustworthy
may very well be keys of nyms of that individual; under many circumstances,
all are trustworthy or none are trustworthy.
	-Allen