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Protection of data integrity in mobile agents has drawn much attention in recent years. Various degrees of agent data integrity have been achieved by a number of proposed schemes. A known vulnerability of these published techniques is the truncation attack. In this paper we propose a “fair forfeit” technique to prevent the truncation attack. It also prevents other known attacks such as the modification, insertion and deletion attacks.
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Yao, M., Peng, K., Dawson, E. (2005). Using “Fair Forfeit” to Prevent Truncation Attacks on Mobile Agents. In: Boyd, C., González Nieto, J.M. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11506157_14
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