The property of us believing an Authority behaves according to some rules.
Trust can be categorized into the following:
Human-based Trust
- Conditional: What is expected to happen might not happen
- Corruptible: Something else than what was expected might happen
- Limited or Permissioned: Some people might get excluded from the system
- Not easily auditable (discussed in Execution, Ordering, History and State Machines): Records of what was done in the past may or may not be available.
Science-based Trust
- Reliable: What is expected will always happen
- Verifiable: What is expected will always happen correctly, and anyone can verify this.
- Accessible, Permissionless: Anyone can join the system according to the rules
- Easily auditable (discussed in Execution, Ordering, History and State Machines): Records of what was done in the past are always available.
This type of trust is said to have Resilience.