Trust
Real-World Models of Trust: http://web.archive.org/web/20030609151735/mcg.org.br/trustdef.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20010119110400/mcg.org.br/augustine.txt http://web.archive.org/web/20000920070151/mcg.org.br/reftrust.txt
The difference between a trusted system and a secure system is that a trusted system can break the security policy.
A trusted system or component is one whose failure can break the security policy, while a trustworthy system or component is one that won´t fail.
A trusted systems element is one whose integrity cannot be assured by external observation of its behaviour while in operation
PKI and Privacy
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/anonymity_as_the_default_and_w.html
What is wrong on PKI
http://web.archive.org/web/20010415174118/mcg.org.br/whycert.htm
http://www.coolheads.com/egov/opensource/topicmap/s26/abstract.html
Risk Management
http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/05/15/reasons-not-to-manage-risk/
PKI Humour
Certificates are Like Marriage:
{{{By the power vested in me I now declare this text and this bit string "name" and "key". What RSA has joined, let no man put asunder.
- -- Bob Blakley
}}} (taken from http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/lectures/slides/LaMacchia_022106.pdf)