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Secure Transactions with Mobile Agents in Hostile Environments

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Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2000)

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A major problem of mobile agents is their apparent inability to authenticate transactions in hostile environments. In this paper, we consider a framework for the prevention of agent tampering without compromising the mobility or autonomy of the agent. Our approach uses encrypted functions. We present an RSA implementation which answers affirmatively the open problem on undetachable signatures of Sander and Tschudin.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Karaoli & Dimitriou 80, 185 34, Piraeus, Greece

    Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou & Vassilios Chrissikopoulos

  2. Information Security Group, Royal Hlloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX, UK

    Mike Burmester

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  1. Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Kotzanikolaou, P., Burmester, M., Chrissikopoulos, V. (2000). Secure Transactions with Mobile Agents in Hostile Environments. In: Dawson, E.P., Clark, A., Boyd, C. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10718964_24

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