Title :
Agent Alliances: A Means for Practical Threshold Signature
Author :
Endsuleit, Regine ; Amma, Christoph
Author_Institution :
Univ. Karlsruhe
Abstract :
Endsuleit and Mie (2003) have proposed a model for the robust and private evaluation of a function within a group of cooperating mobile agents, called an agent alliance. The model has been given abstractly and is based on a cryptographic protocol for secure multi-party computation. This paper aims on the investigation of the complexity of a threshold signature performed within the alliance model. The goal is to achieve a practical security model in which agents can be allowed to act fully autonomously in their users name without relying on a trusted authority
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; digital signatures; mobile agents; multi-agent systems; agent alliance; cooperating mobile agents; cryptographic protocol; secure multiparty computation; security model; threshold signature; trusted authority; Complexity theory; Contracts; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Digital signatures; Electronic mail; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Robustness; Security;
Conference_Titel :
Availability, Reliability and Security, 2007. ARES 2007. The Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2775-2
DOI :
10.1109/ARES.2007.33
