Trust is the willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the person doing the trusting. This is regardless of whether the person can monitor or control the party they are trusting. Trust is a contextual quality and mechanism of human relations, of being social. There is no need to trust that 2+2 will equal 4 tomorrow, it just will. Ditto other deterministic processes such as cryptography.

Trust is the willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the person doing the trusting. This is regardless of whether the person can monitor or control the party they are trusting. Trust is a contextual quality and mechanism of human relations, of being social. There is no need to trust that 2+2 will equal 4 tomorrow, it just will. Ditto other deterministic processes such as cryptography.