February 5, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
36
What’s Alice’s Trust Model
nAlice has to implicitly trust some set of keys
nOnce she does that, those keys can introduce others to her.
nIn the model used by SSL/TLS, CAs are arranged in a hierarchy
nAlice, and everyone else, trusts one or more “root CA” that live at the top of the tree
nOther models work differently (next class)
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