The trusted platform agent

The Trusted Platform Agent (TPA) is designed to minimize the effort of writing applications that use Trusted Computing (TC) technology and employ the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Writing applications for TC requires a TCG software stack (TSS), but there are still a number of tedious and repetitive operations to be carried out. One way to reduce these is by linking an application with the TPA library to avoid the complexity of the TSS interface. This also simplifies tasks in which TC primitives need to be integrated with other commonly needed functions, such as cryptographic or network-related functions. © 2006 IEEE.