Trusted system

In security technology and computer science , a trusted system is a system that is relied on to a certain extent in order to enforce a certain security policy. If it fails, it can destroy the security policy.

Trusted Systems in Trusted Computing

Trust ( Engl. For confidence ) is on the Trusted Computing Group mainly used in the sense of entitlement ( "a trusted user is a user who is entitled to the X").

"Trusted Systems assume that the consumer is dishonest," says Mark Stefik. Thus, in order to be trustworthy from the industry's point of view, the system must prevent the consumer from being able to deal with the product (media content) at will. This fact is criticized by some as incapacitating the consumer.

See also

• Trusted Computing
• Digital rights management

Footnotes

1. ↑ Mark Stefik: Letting Loose the Light: Igniting Commerce in Electronic Publication. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: Internet dreams: Archetypes, myths, and metaphors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996, accessed July 27, 2007 . 

Web links

• The Trusted Systems Project