Principle: Trust Yourself
Assertion Chains should lead back to self
- ìMy credit card number is xxxxî
- CreditCorpís certificate _ Issuing Bank _ own records
- ìUnited.com is the airlineî (it isnít)
- Local DNS _ Root Servers _ ICANN _ Jon Postel (oops!)
- ìJonís public key is yyyyî (X.509)
- Signed by USC _ Signed by state of CA _ Signed by Feds
- ìJonís public key is zzzzî (PGP)
- Signed by Jon _ Signed by Fred _ Signed by self
- ìPublic key nnnn is Jonî (SDSI/SPKI)
- ìSelfís DNSís Jon is nnnnî ó root your own naming tree