The Mobile Agent Security Enhanced by Trusted Computing Technology

Author

Wu, Xiaoping ; Shen, Zhidong ; Zhang, Huanguo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Wuhan Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The mobile agent (MA) technology has been widely used to archive plenty of applications in distributed systems. The mobile agents are completely exposed in different hosts and easy to be attacked by different adversaries. In this paper, the requirements for security of MA are analyzed. Considering the security and safety problems both in software and hardware, we construct a way to build a trusted computing environment for MA by using the trusted computing technology. The trusted platform module (TPM) is integrated into the mobile agent platform. In the TPM enabled schemes for MA, some innovations, such as authentication, MA software integrity, secure group communication and secure storage, are provided to improve the security of MA

Keywords

mobile agents; security of data; authentication; distributed systems; mobile agent security; secure group communication; secure storage; software integrity; trusted computing technology; trusted platform module; Application software; Authentication; Computers; Hardware; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Secure storage; Security; Software safety; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0517-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2006.305

Filename

4149482