Netrust

Article summary

Netrust was established in July 1997 as the first certificate authority in Southeast Asia. Netrust provides individuals, businesses and government organisations with online identification and security infrastructure for secure electronic transactions via the Internet and other wireless media. In its capacity as a certificate authority, Netrust acts as a trusted third party that issues and manages digital certificates. Netrust maintains a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certification service and in its CA role creates and signs X.509 digital certificates which bind individuals, organisations and application servers with the particular public key of each subscriber.

Key claims

1. date of establishment: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1997". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375840472