Security in mobile agent systems

Author

Sameh, Ahmed ; Fakhry, Dalia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., American Univ. in Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

5

Abstract

There are four possible security attacks: Attacks from host to host, from agents to hosts, from agents to agents and finally from hosts to agents. Our main concern is attacks from a malicious host on an agent. These attacks can take many forms including rerouting, spying out code, spying out data, spying out control flow, manipulation of code, manipulation of data, manipulation of control flow, incorrect execution of code, masquerading and denial of execution. This paper presents a three-tier solution of code mess up, encryption and time out

Keywords

Internet; cryptography; software agents; telecommunication security; Internet; code manipulation; code mess up; code spying; control flow manipulation; control flow spying; data manipulation; data spying; denial of execution; encryption; incorrect code execution; malicious host; masquerading; mobile agent systems; rerouting; security attacks; three-tier solution; time out; Code standards; Computer science; Computer security; Costs; Cryptography; Data security; Libraries; Mobile agents; Protection; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet, 2002. (SAINT 2002). Proceedings. 2002 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nara

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1447-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT.2002.994431

Filename

994431