Least Trust

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The principal that a security architecture should be designed in a way that minimizes 1) the number of components that require trust, and 2) the extent to which each component is trusted.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Least Trusts
possessive: Least Trust's
pluralpossessive: Least Trusts'

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