Malicious Hosts Detection through Truth Powered Approach

The widespread adoption of mobile agents as a best appropriate mean for supporting distributed computing is facing the major problem of security. The subtle issue of malicious hosts is by far the most difficult facet of this concern. Many various solutions had been reported in the area of mobile agentspsila trustworthiness, varying from tamper free hardware to pure software protocols. Nonetheless, none is fully satisfactory. This paper addresses the issues of mobile agentspsila trustworthiness in a new basis. In fact, our approach uses a mediation procedure, resorting at last to a mechanism enforcing the truth where the malicious character of a host is unambiguously reported. The core ideas of our approach are new. However, the principles driving them were around for years, since the era of distributed systems investigations. This paper will develop the issues raised by our approach.