Mobile agents´ authentication using a proposed light Kerberos system

A mobile agent is a program that is issued either by a human user or an application to travel over a network autonomously to either gather information or perform some computation. However its many benefits, mobile agent technology resulted in new significant security threats from both malicious agents and hosts. This paper introduces novel efficient and light security framework for mobile agent environment based on Kerberos system. The proposed framework aims at reducing the usual overhead resulting inside the Kerberos system by using 2-layer software that accomplishes the work of the hardware components. Besides, it reduces the required hardware which means low cost and high speed communication compared to traditional Kerberos system.