Chapter 8. Establishing Trust
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare
The ability to establish trust is an essential ingredient when building reliable systems. A cornerstone of establishing a trust relationship is entity authentication, the process by which one or more authenticating parties determine the identity of a claimant party such that they have a reasonably strong assurance that the evidence presented proves the claimant’s identity. Succinctly, an authenticated identity supplies assurance that the claimant is genuine. Once the identity of the entity has been determined, access control decisions can be made based on the perceived trustworthiness of the parties involved.
Entity authentication is accomplished with ...
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