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Analysis of Some Trusted Systems Pradip Lamsal Department of Computer Science University of Helsinki, Finland 2nd of July 2002 Pradip.Lamsal@helsinki.fi Abstract Trust is pr esent in a lot of comput ing and telecommunications systems either as a building block f or security or f or other purpos es. Almost all the systems trust is pretty much static and there is not any standard basis for trust establishment. Trust is established on an ad hoc basis, whatever suites the system. In this paper we consider some systems where trust plays an impor tant role for the system to f unction properly and analyz e them with a view to propose some enhancements wherever possible. Keywords: trust, trust establishment, roaming, static trust, dynamic trust 1 Introduction Trust is an integral part of human life. We use trust almost everywhere in our daily life and we have even built numerous system, totally based on some assumed trust. In information technology (IT) world, these trusted systems vary from simply reading the color code of a small resistor to downloading some corporate information from an Intranet and hopefully, one day, to order our fridge to do grocery shopping for the evening dinner. Although the last example is not available today we have been using most of other systems for some time now knowingly or unknowingly. In section 2 we consider a meeting room scenario where participants want to establish trust dynamically. In section 3 we look at the current trust model for the GSM/UMTS systems. In section 4 we take two examples