- Title
- Trust on the Web
- Creator
- Cloran, Russell, Irwin, Barry V W
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428900
- Identifier
- vital:72544
- Identifier
- https://digifors.cs.up.ac.za/issa/2005/Proceedings/Full/025_Article.pdf
- Description
- This paper forms a backdrop for work investigating trust on the semantic web. With the mass of information currently available on the web, and the low barrier to entry for the publication of information on the web, it can be difficult to classify the au-thority of information found on the web. We use a case study of a suspected phish-ing scam in South Africa to examine the methods an advanced user may use to veri-fy the authenticity of a web site and the information it published. From this case study, we see that a website which is legitimate may easily appear to be a scam, because of the manner in which information is presented and the failure to use es-tablished industry best practices. We discuss a number of ways in which doubt may have been eliminated. We then discuss how a distributed trust system, as favoured by many researchers in trust on the semantic web, may have been implemented in this case to prove the authenticity of the site without the traditional means involv-ing the high cost of a digital certificate from a recognised Certificate Authority.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Information Security for South Africa, Cloran, R. and Irwin, B., 2005. Trust on the Web. In ISSA (pp. 1-9)., Information Security for South Africa volume 2005 number 1 9 2005 2330-9881
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