It's 4AM and I am thinking about serts.  No, not certs.  Serts, as in Asserts.  Cute, eh?  It's a term I came up with to describe cert-like objects except it's just signed piece of information about anything where a cert is a signed information about a person.  A sert can be a signed grocery list or a list of weapons on board a ship.  A sert is just data signed by someone or something.

Think of serts as anonymous certs gone wild.  Say I visit a website and the website can distinguish me from other visitors using whatever means handy like cookies.  Over time, the website gets to know me.  So it hands me a sert that say "I don't know who this guy is but he has been trustworthy for these sort of activities."  Does that sert have value?  I think so.  Does it matter who I am?  Not really.  That's a sert for you.

World needs serts because everyone could use a bit of sertainty.