A Trusted Computing Technology Enabled Mobile Agent System

Author

Shen, Zhidong ; Wu, Xiaoping

Author_Institution

Int. Software Sch., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

567

Lastpage

570

Abstract

The Mobile Agent (MA) has been seen as a promising distributed computing technology. According to the analysis of security problems of current mobile agents that are exposed in opening environment, a model system for mobile agent is proposed in this paper. In this system, the mobile agent security is enhanced by the Trusted Computing Technology. The mobile agent security supporting environment (MASSE) is designed by using trusted software stack (TSS) and trusted computing platform (TCP). To improve the security of MA system, some MA security services, such as authentication, role based access control and MA negotiation, are discussed in this paper. The working process of MASSE is also described.

Keywords

distributed processing; mobile agents; security of data; MA negotiation; MA security services; authentication; distributed computing; mobile agent security supporting environment; mobile agent system; mobile agents; opening environment; role based access control; security problems; trusted computing platform; trusted computing technology; trusted software stack; Access control; Application software; Authentication; Computer science; Computer security; Data security; Distributed computing; Information security; Mobile agents; Software engineering; mobile agent; security; trusted computing platform; trusted computing technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3336-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSE.2008.888

Filename

4722407