trustless

English

From trust +‎ -less.

trustless (not comparable)

Lacking trust; untrusting.
Untrustworthy; not deserving to be trusted.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  But thinks it not that […] the voice which the spirit uttereth when he is gone from man […] is a voice proceeding from the spirit which is in earthly, ignorant, and overclouded man; and therefore a trustles and not to be-believed voice?
(computing) Which does not need any trust.
A trustless network can run even if none of its nodes trusts another.

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