Editorial: Special issue on trust and identity management in mobile and internet computing and communications

Trust is typically interpreted as the confidence, belief, and expectation regarding the security, dependability, integrity and ability of an entity on which we depend, while identity generally consists of a name and a set of attributes used to identify and recognise a unique entity. With the rapid innovation and development in mobile and Internet computing and communications, there is an exponential growth in the number of entities that we interact with and depend on for our welfare. Trust and identity are therefore becoming essential factors for the sustainability of the mobile and Internet computing revolution.