Soft trust

Soft trust represents credibility and reliability. The sentence "I trust my mother to help when I'm in trouble" fully comprehend the meaning of SoftTrust.


 * "I trust Bob the mechanic to fix my car but not as the babysitter of my son".

HardTrust, instead, refer to the certainty we can have about the identity of a peer.


 * "I trust that the person who phoned me was Alice".

Hard Trust refers to security of identity.

SoftTrust is not a constant value, it develops and changes over time, so expressions of frequency and currency of the trust relationship could be important. i.e. "the last time I trusted my mother to help when I was in trouble was five years ago, I have trusted her 25 times over the past 10 years when I have been in trouble" SoftTrust should also allow negative, "distrust" values for the same object. i.e. "I do not trust my mother to help me choose a shirt"