Numérique et confiance

The digital universe has developed so rapidly that the issue of trust may seem secondary. However, as uses diversify, behaviors are eroding trust in this space (fraud, identity theft, cyberstalking). In addition, the massive collection of personal data by digital services raises questions. Moreover, cybercrime and state surveillance of communications also hamper online trust. Therefore, such a space questions the mechanisms that produce and maintain trust. If these trust mechanisms initially imitated traditional mechanisms, the digital universe has gradually produced its own mechanisms for generating and managing trust, based on the nature of its own characteristics, the network organization and data processing. From then on, the architecture of the trusted third party, whatever its modality, is itself questioned and leads to the idea that a network architecture, by design, by itself, can generate trust in exchanges.