UC Davis researchers look at trust in data communications

According to a press release from 10 September 2001, computer security researchers at the University of California at Davis are studying a system that lets exposed, "untrusted" machines go on providing useful, accurate information, even though they might have been infiltrated and compromised. Their method invokes a digital signature from a "trusted" computer that can help verify the integrity of data received from an "untrusted" computer.