Title: APPLICATION OF TRUSTED COMPUTING

As described in Section , the architecture is based on a trusted environment realized via Trusted Computing mainly in order to prevent hosts of agent platforms from acting in a malicious manner. The certified service application to be attested is the runtime environment within which agent platforms operate. An entity intending to deploy an agent on a platform operating within this trusted environment should follow the standard remote attestation process, i.e. request the attestation of the platform, verify the authenticity of the attestation result, and evaluate the platform configuration. After successfully carrying out these steps, agents containing private data may be deployed on the platform without the risk of exposing the private data to any other agent running on the platform, or to the platform provider itself.