LIGHTest: Lightweight Infrastrucutre for Global and Heterogeneous Trust Management

The EU-funded LIGHTest project is developing a global trust infrastructure that enables an easy and efficient verification process of electronic transactions, even if the involved instances belong to different trust domains. LIGHTest builds on the available internet Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. This paper gives an overview on the LIGHTest project, its reference architecture and variety of application fields.