Comparative analysis of trust and security

In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The existing literature does not draw a clear line how and when the terms of 'trust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.
Other Authors: n/a
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4686
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Summary:In the literature, there is a lot of confusion regarding the relationship between the 'trust' and 'security'. Most of the times, these terms are regarded as being synonymous with each other. The existing literature does not draw a clear line how and when the terms of 'trust' and 'security' are synonymous and when they are not synonymous. In this paper we address this issue and discuss when the distinct terms of 'trust' and 'security' can be regarded as being synonymous with each other and when they could be regarded as not being synonymous with each other.