What do the specifications cover?
The set of specifications consists of the Integrity Management Architecture, the interface specification for a measurement agent called the Platform Trust Service (or PTS), and a common XML-based data format for capturing and reporting integrity information about a system. The Integrity Management Architecture provides the common framework for defining, collecting and reporting information pertaining to the integrity of the software and configuration of a system. Such information includes the components (software and hardware) constituting the platform, the elements that participated in its booting-up and the software that establishes the computing environment in the platform. The Platform Trust Service (PTS) interface specification defines the API to a measurement agent that performs the collection, measurement and reporting of the integrity information on the platform. The PTS interface specification has been written to be platform independent, meaning that it is applicable to the va
