In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner. Its decentralized trust model is an alternative to the centralized trust model of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which relies exclusively on a certificate authority. As with computer networks, there are many independent webs of trust, and any user can be a part of, and a link between, multiple webs.
Trust Over IP - Defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust
The Trust over IP Foundation is defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic trust at the machine layer and human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.
Welcome to the Web of Trust
Empowering individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit.
EigenTrust
The EigenTrust algorithm is a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, developed by Sep Kamvar, Mario Schlosser, and Hector Garcia-Molina.[1] The algorithm provides each peer in the network a unique global trust value based on the peer's history of uploads and thus aims to reduce the number of inauthentic files in a P2P network. It has been cited by approximately 5800 other articles according to Google Scholar.[2]
Digital Trust – Province of British Columbia
Digital trust provides people and businesses with secure, privacy-preserving ways of identifying themselves online and communicating confidentially with others.
Web of Trust - Vertrauen durch echte Begegnungen
Dezentrales Vertrauensnetzwerk für lokale Gemeinschaften. Menschen vernetzen sich basierend auf echten Begegnungen statt Algorithmen.
Trust Revolution
Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what's next.
About - Ringspace Trusted Webrings: Protocol Specification
Ringspace is an attempt to revive the old concept of webrings, but with an added twist: mutual verification of identity and reputation. Historically, webrings were simply a “doubly-linked list” of sites, in which each member provided links to the previous and next members in the ring. A simple concept, brilliantly effective in its time to organize the web into discrete, discoverable communities in a time before search engines.
Scaling trust on the web
The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web's report on gaps and opportunities for how the next generation of online spaces will be built.
Keytrace — One identity, many proofs.
Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your internet handle. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.
Your decentralised & privacy enhancing alternative to google docs
Decentralised Docs: peer-to-peer document editor that keeps your data secure with end-to-end encryption. Real-time collaboration, onchain.
Building Software for a Zero Trust World
How we are helping to build Zero Trust architectures that safeguard the most protected data in the world
did:web Method Specification
DIDs that target a distributed ledger face significant practical challenges in bootstrapping enough meaningful trusted data around identities to incentivize mass adoption. We propose a new DID method using a web domain's existing reputation.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
LinkedTrust — Deep Tech. Human Trust.
Verified trust systems, civic tech platforms, and AI-powered tools. Real projects, real impact.
DWeb
DWeb connects the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is more private, reliable, secure and open. A web with many winners—returning to the original vision of the World Wide Web and internet.
On Trust Infrastructure Trust underpins civilisation. It expands the scope and complexity of the pursuits within our collective reach by allowing us to act as a…