A secure approach for mobile agent migration control

Sheng-Uei Guan1, Tianhan Wang1, Sim-Heng Ong1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tóm tắt

The mobile agent paradigm is a promising technology for smart e-commerce of the next generation. However, security-related issues must be satisfactorily solved before they come into full commercial use. We propose a secure approach for mobile agent migration control based on passport and visa (P/V). P/V as up-to-date digital credentials not only serve the agent-host authentication purpose, but also can be used by hosts to trace the agent route and by communities to control the migration of mobile agents. The binding scheme further provides a way to protect these digital credentials and eliminate the misuse of them on illegal agents. We discuss the design issues in detail and evaluate the implementation of the proposed system.

Từ khóa

#Mobile agents #Authentication #Electronic commerce #Security #Protection #Bandwidth #Web and internet services #Business #IP networks #Computer architecture

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