Inter-Domain Trust
Although it is possible for individual businesses to forge their own inter-organizational trust relationships on a bilateral basis, a number of initiatives are designed to establish business-to-business trust relationships on behalf of these organizations. The purpose of this section is to briefly discuss a few of these initiatives.
Entrust Worldwide
Entrust Worldwide is a global, policy-partitioned trust network. It is designed to facilitate inter-organizational trust through the concept of hubs. (The purpose of a hub is to "introduce" one organization to another.) This concept is similar to the bridge CA component discussed in Chapter 9, "Trust Models." The hub uses cross-certification (as opposed to a rooted hierarchy approach) ...
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