"Trusted" Vs. "Trustworthy"
The terms Trustworthy Computing and Trusted Computing had distinct meanings. A given system can be trustworthy but not trusted and vice versa.
The National Security Agency (NSA) defines a trusted system or component as one "whose failure can break the security policy", and a trustworthy system or component as one "that will not fail". Trusted Computing has been defined and outlined with a set of specifications and guidelines by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), including secure input and output, memory curtaining, sealed storage, and remote attestation. As stated above, Trustworthy Computing aims to build consumer confidence in computers, by making them more reliable, and thus more widely used and accepted.
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Famous quotes containing the words trusted and/or trustworthy:
“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)