Privacy-enhancing uses of trusted platform technology

The problem of enhancing trust in e-commerce while maintaining privacy is an important one, not least because lack of such trust is a key inhibitor to the growth of e-commerce. This paper describes various applications for trusted computer technology ((www.trustedcomnuting.org) under bar) that promote privacy and freedom. Preferably, trusted hardware acts as a root of trust in this process; this approach is most appropriate in cases where the trusted infrastructure is already in place and therefore may be readily exploited in a practical and efficient manner. In other cases many of the techniques described may still be applied using a combination of some trusted infrastructure and alternative pseudonymous technology.