| The
purpose of DSig is to help users to decide what information
they can trust on the Web. One part of DSig allows
the author of a (Web) document to make assertions
about the document and to cryptographically protect
these assertions by digital signatures. The other
part of DSig, the Trust Management Architecture (TMA)
described in this document, helps the recipient of
a document to make a decision about how to treat this
document based on the assertions, the trust relationship
with sender of the document, and other parameters.
Expressing trust is a complicated issue. Users need
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