# kaal:claim:3266953-004

**Claim.** The trust humans place in machines on the internet has never been verified, because neither centralized nor decentralized authentication engines have typically confirmed that trust or otherwise enabled a trusting environment for internet based transactions.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- human to machine interaction on the internet

**Source quote.**

> Yet no centralized or decentralized authentication engine has typically verified the trust humans place in machines or otherwise enabled a trusting environment for internet-based transactions.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Trust Crises on the Internet, page 7

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Failure mode.** missing authentication of machine trust  (family: sybil-and-identity-attack)

**Topics.** reputation

**Keywords.** authentication, machine-trust, verification, internet-transactions

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