Patent ID: 7024691

Claim:
A method for trusting sites in a communication network, comprising: receiving at least one input credential to authenticate a site; feeding said at least one input credential to an advanced policy to deduce a plurality of verified general-context declarations related to said site in addition to the authentication of said site, wherein if said plurality of verified general-context declarations cannot be deduced, receiving at least one additional input credential, and feeding said at least one additional input credential to said advanced policy to deduce a plurality of verified general-context declarations related to said site in addition to the authentication of said site, until a plurality of verified general-context declarations related to said site in addition to the authentication of said site are deduced; associating a symbol with each one of said plurality of verified general-context declarations; and displaying said symbol in a predefined way that cannot be set by said site, wherein said advanced policy is deducing said plurality of verified general-context declarations as a function of at least one existing credential known to said advanced policy, or to said at least one input credential or said at least one additional input credential.