1. A method for creating trusted authentic digital relationships in a computer network using a unique electronic entity identifier for an entity including, but not limited to a person, abstract entity, datum, good, or electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring, at a device, public key data for an asymmetric key pair comprising a public key and a private key; acquiring, at a device, a unique key identifier for the public key data; acquiring, at a device, a set of one or more policies, wherein each policy from the set of one or more policies comprises a set of machine-evaluable rules comprising one or more unique electronic entity identifiers and/or the unique key identifier, and at least one logical operator or mathematical function, wherein a total number of identifiers from the one or more unique electronic entity identifiers and/or the unique key identifier in the policy is greater than one; determining a unique electronic entity identifier for the entity, at a device, comprising a hash value of the set of one or more policies, wherein the determined unique electronic identifier represents a trusted digital identity of the entity for use in a computer network; replacing one or more unique electronic entity identifiers within the set of one or more policies with numeric or logical values; receiving, at a device, a message; and authenticating the received message, wherein the step of authenticating comprises: evaluating the set of one or more policies with the replaced one or more unique electronic entity identifiers to produce an affirmative or non-affirmative result.