A sentence that I use forcefully in every presentation and keynote.

The internet and  #digitization is probably one of the greatest achievements of our time. It allows interaction across borders regardless of time and place. Unfortunately, the internet itself lacks a layer of trust, so you can never really be sure: Who on the other side is interacting with you. 

Peter Steiner summed this up in 1993 with his famous cartoon: 

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

However, this trust gap can now be remedied with #digital #trust elements. In addition to #implicit #trust elements such as (cyber)-security, there are also #explicit #trust elements that allow you to ensure transactional trust. There are three elements that generally need to be in place for a transaction to be processed in a trustworthy manner.

• #Identity: Who am I dealing with?
• #Integrity: Is the information correct and has it not been subsequently changed?
• #Liability: Is the promise or statement of intent binding and legally enforceable?

This applies not only to #individuals, but also to #organizations and #software / #AI / #IoT to the same extent.
I have therefore developed a model that defines explicit transactional trust in an easy and understandable way.

By the way: A Qualified Electronic Signature (#QES) combines already all three elements, since an #identification is required, the document is given #integrity protection and the certificate is #legally #binding under #ZertES and#eIDAS.