Title :
Efficient Key Management Scheme for Mobile Agent in a Hierarchy
Author :
Liu, Yi ; Ding, Yong
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
Mobile agents are autonomous software entities that are able to migrate across different execution environments. The characteristics of mobile agents make them ideal for electronic commerce applications in open networks. Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper, using discrete logarithm, an efficient key management proposal for mobile agent based on hierarchical structure is presented and its security is analyzed. It can achieve the property that related parameters do not have to update even if set secret keys are altered. So, the presented scheme may be more suitable for applications.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; mobile agents; autonomous software; discrete logarithm; efficient key management; electronic commerce; hierarchical structure; key management scheme; mobile agent system; Computers; Consumer electronics; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Security; Silicon; Software; discrete logarithm; hierarchy; key management; mobile agent;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO), 2011 Fourth International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yunnan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9712-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4335-2
DOI :
10.1109/CSO.2011.122
