At 11:03 AM -0500 6/18/02, Alex Audu wrote: >Ed, > >You made some interesting points which leads me to wonder if >we can define Trust in such a way that its parameters are verifiable, >then we can verify that it is transitive. In other words, if Jon gets >a dollar from Mike, and Jon can verify the parameters of the dollar, >then Jon doesn't care about the "trustworthyness" of Mike's source. >Or should he? > >Regards, >Alex. I didn't want to comment on this example, but your message forces me to do so. Jon verifies the dollar, which is a bearer credential, and not Mike, the person from whom he received the dollar. (The dollar could have been stolen by Mike!) This example says nothing about transitivity of trust. Steve