Encryption is not identity
HTTPS protects a connection. It does not prove that the operator is honest, that the page is harmless, or that the domain is the one a visitor intended.
Human Interactive Protocol
What is the Human Interactive Protocol?
HIP is an open trust protocol and trust layer for evaluating websites with technical, reputation, identity and behavioural evidence. A scanner is one way to use HIP, but the protocol is the larger system that defines evidence, scores, confidence, verification and review.
Why HIP exists
Trust needs evidence people can inspect.
Shared evidence vocabulary
HIP separates observations, rule versions, score components, confidence and limitations so clients can present the same result without hiding how it was reached.
Explainable trust scores
A public result can include domain trust, page trust, content risk, evidence coverage, confidence, reasons and a final HIP score. Limited Data is a valid result, not a guess.
Review and appeals
Website owners can prove control, inspect public-safe findings and use the documented appeal path when evidence is wrong or incomplete.
Four distinct concepts
Control, scores, certificates and badges are not interchangeable.
Evidence-based assessment
A 0 to 100 result tied to the evidence, scan time and active rule or policy version. A high score is not a safety guarantee.
Proof of control
A DNS or supported website challenge can prove control of a domain. Control alone does not establish trustworthiness.
Signed, expiring record
An issued certificate binds a domain, verification level, evidence and validity period to a signed HIP record that can be checked independently.
HIP trust badge
The badge is the public presentation of a current eligible HIP state. It links back to verifiable information and can stop representing an active state when its certificate or evidence is no longer current.