A method of establishing trust between entities in a decentralized
data processing environment implementing a credentials bridge
middleware platform. The method including steps of: receiving input claims at a claim normalizer component, where the input claims are represented in a plurality of assertion formats,
parsing the received input claims at the claim normalizer component using a parser extension, transforming the parsed input claims at the claim normalizer component into a common syntactic representation, receiving, at a claim evaluator component, the transformed parsed claims in the common syntactic representation, along with normalized attributes, from the claim normalizer component, fetching, by the claim evaluator component, context attributes from an attribute interface component, evaluating, at the claim evaluator component, a claim transformation policy using the normalized attributes and the context attributes and generating, at the claim evaluator component, obligatory actions that is used to generate Claims Execution Policies (CXP) for establishing trust between entities in the decentralized
data processing environment.