Protecting agents from malicious hosts using TPM

Protecting the Data State of Mobile Agents by Using Bitmaps and XOR Operators

The identified security areas comprise protecting hosts against malicious agents, protecting the agent’s transmission and protecting agents against malicious hosts. The first two security issues and the protection of the agent’s code state can be solved by applying traditional security techniques. Even though there are some works that manage the privacy of execution, their implementation is alm...

Preventing Attacks on Mobile Agents by Malicious Hosts

The security concerns that come with using mobile agents is the main reason why the mobile agent paradigm has not been widely adopted. A number of new security problems are introduced with the use of mobile agents. Both, the host computer that executes an agent and the agent, need security mechanisms to protect against the threats posed by malicious agents and hosts. The issue of protecting a m...

Path-Based Security for Mobile Agents

As mobile agents are increasingly adopted in intranets, on the Internet, and on computational grids, new security concerns become increasingly important. Unlike other kinds of mobile code, such as applets, which are pulled a single time to remote systems (single-hop), mobile agents may move using their own itinerary through a series of systems (multiple-hop), potentially carrying sensitive info...

Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts

A Security Based Model for Mobile Agent Software Systems

Security modeling for agents has been one of the most challenging issues in developing practical mobile agent software systems. In the past, researchers have developed mobile agent systems with emphasis either on protecting mobile agents from malicious hosts or protecting hosts from malicious agents. In this paper, we propose a security based mobile agent system architecture that provides a gen...