Endorsements, licensing, and insurance for distributed system services
Gennady Medvinsky, Charlie Lai, Clifford Neuman · 1994
Clients in a distributed system place their confidence in many servers, and servers themselves rely on other servers for file storage, authentication, authorization, and payment. When a system spans administrative boundaries it becomes harder to assess the security and competence of potential service providers. This paper examines the issue of confidence in large distributed systems.