Title :
Using SMAC Agent Securely in Heterogonous Database Systems
Author :
Ahmed, Tarig Mohamed
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., King Faisal Univ., Al Hasa
Abstract :
Mobile agent technology has several used in distributed system applications. Unfortunately, this technology is not full utilized for security problems. One of these problems is a mobile agent protection against malicious hosts. This paper deals with this problem to protect the using of this technology in heterogonous database systems. SMAG (secure mobile agent generator) is a new mobile agent system. It uses cryptography mechanisms to protect agents. The agent is partitioned into groups. Each group is encrypted by a different secret key. So, a service provider can deal only with group if it has a copy of the secret key. SMAG generates an secure agent according to a user´s specification. Through the agent, the user can manipulate with any type of database. By using C# language and Dot Net framework, SMAG system has been implemented. To demonstrate the system, a scenario is given
Keywords :
C language; cryptography; distributed databases; mobile agents; telecommunication security; C-language; Dot Net framework; SMAG system; cryptography mechanism; distributed system; encryption; heterogonous database system; secret key; secure mobile agent generator; Application software; Computer science; Cryptography; Data security; Database systems; Message passing; Mobile agents; Network servers; Protection; Relational databases; Agent Security; Heterogonous Databases; Mobile agent system;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2005 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9283-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689258
