A Secure Modular Mobile Agent System TR-UTEDGE-2006-003
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Applications in mobile multi-agent systems require a high degree of confidence that code that runs inside the system will not be malicious and that any agents which are malicious can be identified and contained. Since the inception of mobile agents, this threat has been addressed using a multitude of techniques, but many of these implementations have only addressed concerns from the position of either the platform or the agent, and very few approaches have attempted to approach the problem of mobile agent security from both perspectives simultaneously. Furthermore, no middleware exists that facilitates provision of the required security qualities of mobile agent software while extensively focusing on easing the software development burden. In this paper, we introduce a middleware system that eases the integration of core software assurance qualities into the mobile agent software development process by addressing perspectives from positions the of both the platform and the agent.
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