| CPC G06F 21/57 (2013.01) | 15 Claims |

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1. A computer implemented method of attesting a state of a computing environment comprising a plurality of components and a plurality of dependency relationships between the plurality of components, the method comprising:
A) generating a directed acyclic graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of directed edges connecting the nodes, comprising:
A1) associating a node with each component of the computing environment;
A2) associating a node with each dependency relationship and assigning the node with a hash value of data descriptive of said dependency relationship;
A3) connecting, using directed edges, each node associated with a dependency relationship to a node(s) associated with a component(s) included in the respective dependency relationship;
A4) assigning each node with a hash value of all of its subnodes; and
B) generating an attest of the state of the computing environment using the directed acyclic graph.
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