On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Marcus Brinkmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/30/2014 02:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> As is so often found, there are multiple nuanced definitions of a >> word, "trust" being the word in the current case. >> >> Simply as a personal definition, trust is that state wherein I accept >> assertions at face value and do so because I have effective recourse >> should having let my guard down later prove to have been unwise. >> >> Restated as logic, >> >> If I can trust, then I have effective recourse. >> >> and in contrapositive >> >> If I have no effective recourse, then I cannot trust. > > ... > If you have effective recourse, then by that definition trust is not > required. Exactly.
Trust is what is used when you don't have a security control to place. Or won't place... Jeff _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
