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In this paper we present and simulate a new approach for creating trusted infrastructures within multi agent systems. This bootstrapping protocol initializes a disordered space by turning it into an organized, redundant hierarchical structure, headed by elected security distribution centers with a pool of successors in case of a failure. A simulation was creates of the establishment of this hierarchy to judge both the resulting structure and the process of creation in a varying environment. Networks are tested of different scale, type and topology, with different numbers of malicious agents, intent on disrupting the bootstrapping process.