Mobile Agents Security Protocols

2013 ◽  
pp. 166-202
Author(s):  
Raja Al-Jaljouli ◽  
Jemal H. Abawajy
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Security Properties ◽  
Mobile Agents Security ◽  
Fundamental Requirement

Mobile agents are expected to run in partially unknown and untrustworthy environments. They transport from one host to another host through insecure channels and may execute on non-trusted hosts. Thus, they are vulnerable to direct security attacks of intruders and non-trusted hosts. The security of information the agents collect is a fundamental requirement for a trusted implementation of electronic business applications and trade negotiations. This chapter discusses the security protocols presented in the literature that aim to secure the data mobile agents gather while searching the Internet, and identifies the security flaws revealed in the protocols. The protocols are analyzed with respect to the security properties, and the security flaws are identified. Two recent promising protocols that fulfill the various security properties are described. The chapter also introduces common notations used in describing security protocols and describes the security properties of the data that mobile agents gather.

Mobile Agents Security Protocols

2012 ◽  
pp. 270-305
Author(s):  
Raja Al-Jaljouli ◽  
Jemal H. Abawajy
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Security Properties ◽  
Mobile Agents Security ◽  
Fundamental Requirement

Mobile agents are expected to run in partially unknown and untrustworthy environments. They transport from one host to another host through insecure channels and may execute on non-trusted hosts. Thus, they are vulnerable to direct security attacks of intruders and non-trusted hosts. The security of information the agents collect is a fundamental requirement for a trusted implementation of electronic business applications and trade negotiations. This chapter discusses the security protocols presented in the literature that aim to secure the data mobile agents gather while searching the Internet, and identifies the security flaws revealed in the protocols. The protocols are analyzed with respect to the security properties, and the security flaws are identified. Two recent promising protocols that fulfill the various security properties are described. The chapter also introduces common notations used in describing security protocols and describes the security properties of the data that mobile agents gather.

AN OPTIMISTIC THIRD PARTY PROTOCOL TO PROTECT A MOBILE AGENT'S BINARY CODE

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (05) ◽  
pp. 607-619
Author(s):  
DIRK WESTHOFF
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Binary Code ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
The World ◽  
Mobile Agents Security ◽  
Malicious Host

In the world of mobile agents, security aspects are being discussed extensively, with strong emphasis on how agents can be protected against malicious hosts and vice versa. While in recent years many research groups presented solutions offering protection schemes for hosts that receive and run un-trusted, possibly malicious agents, in the field of protecting the agent against malicious hosts, development seems to grow very slowly. This paper discusses a protocol for detecting modifications at the agent's binary code that, for a particular class of modifications, undoubtedly unmasks the attacking host. Furthermore, it is shown that in co-operation with a special kind of route protection in a lot of scenarios the protocol resists attacks from coaliting malicious hosts as well as from a single malicious host.

scholarly journals Secure Route Structures for Parallel Mobile Agents Based Systems Using Fast Binary Dispatch

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Vijay Varadharajan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Signature ◽  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Public Key Encryption ◽  
Distributed Environment ◽  
Signature Schemes ◽  
Route Information ◽  
Nested Structure ◽  
Mobile Agents Security

In a distributed environment, where a large number of computers are connected together to enable the large-scale sharing of data and computing resources, agents, especially mobile agents, are the tools for autonomously completing tasks on behalf of their owners. For applications of large-scale mobile agents, security and efficiency are of great concern. In this paper, we present a fast binary dispatch model and corresponding secure route structures for mobile agents dispatched in parallel to protect the dispatch routes of agents while ensuring the dispatch efficiency. The fast binary dispatch model is simple but efficient with a dispatch complexity of O(log2n. The secure route structures adopt the combination of public-key encryption and digital signature schemes and expose minimal route information to hosts. The nested structure can help detect attacks as early as possible. We evaluated the various models both analytically and empirically.

FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION OF METHODS OF ORGANIZATION OF ADAPTIVE DATA COLLECTION PROCESSES AND METHODS OF SPATIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION OF MOBILE AGENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Botchkaryov. A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Motion Control ◽  
Mobile Agent ◽  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Parallel Execution ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Adaptive Data Collection

The way of functional coordination of methods of organization adaptive data collection processes and methods of spatial self-organization of mobile agents by parallel execution of the corresponding data collection processes and the process of motion control of a mobile agent using the proposed protocol of their interaction and the algorithm of parallel execution planning is proposed. The method allows to speed up the calculations in the decision block of the mobile agent by an average of 40.6%. Key words: functional coordination, adaptive data collection process, spatial self-organization, mobile agents

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