Title :
Security design of mobile agent system
Author :
Jihong, Wang ; Jianping, Hu ; Kai, Hu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., China
Abstract :
Mobile agents can move between different agencies on different network nodes. This brand-new distributed computing mode is facing a security threat. This paper describes the security of our Unigent system. It also enlarges the issue of agent-based distributed computing from the aspects of anonymity, region and heterogeneity
Keywords :
distributed programming; security of data; software agents; Unigent system; agent-based distributed computing; anonymity; heterogeneity; mobile agent system; network nodes; security design; Certification; Communication system security; Computer architecture; Computer science; Cryptography; Distributed computing; Information security; Mobile agents; Network servers; Runtime environment;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0680-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2000.875061