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The deployment of any security policy requires the definition of a trust model that defines who trusts who and how. There is a host of research efforts in the trustworthy area to securing mobile ad hoc networks. Among the most used approaches are based on public-key certificates and gave birth to miscellaneous trust models ranging from centralized models to web-of-trust and distributed certification...