Privacy in mobile agents

Author

Cartrysse, K. ; van der Lubbe, J.C.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Math. & Comput. Sci., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2004

fDate

30-31 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

82

Abstract

Agent technology gives many promises for future IT-systems, but little privacy related problems in this technology have been resolved. This paper addresses the privacy problems in agent technology and provides several solutions to overcome some of these problems. It is shown that if an encryption algorithm is used in a different form, it can also provide privacy in communication for agents. Second, it is shown how secret computations can be performed when the function to be executed is a polynomial. Finally, an agent digital signature is described that takes into consideration that the agent´s private key must be seen as the most privacy sensitive information of an agent.

Keywords

cryptography; data privacy; digital signatures; mobile agents; IT-systems; agent digital signature; agent private key; agent technology; encryption algorithm; mobile agents; secret computations; Cryptography; Data security; Information security; Intelligent agent; Mobile agents; Polynomials; Positron emission tomography; Privacy; Protection; Software agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, 2004 IEEE First Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8799-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASSUR.2004.1368420

Filename

1368420