Introduction

It is a common requirement for operating systems to be able to provide applications with the highest degree of trust access to the highly-priviliged data/functions. One of the popular requirements in the commercial systems is the ability for a highly-trusted application to access device-identification information(serial number, asset it). This API tries to bring this ability to the Web, although restricting it to a small configurable subset of highly trusted applications.

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