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This paper investigates foundations for the description of, and reasoning about, trust in secure digital communication. We propose a logic, called the Typed Modal Logic (TML), which extends first-order logic with typed variables and modal operators to express agent beliefs. Based on the logic, the theory of trust for a specific security system can be established. Such trust theories provide a foundation for reasoning about trust in digital communication.
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Liu, C. (2001). Logical Foundations for Reasoning about Trust in Secure Digital Communication. In: Stumptner, M., Corbett, D., Brooks, M. (eds) AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45656-2_29
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