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A Secure Protocol for Mobile Agents in Hostile Environment

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Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications (MATA 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCCN,volume 3744))

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Mobile agent systems present a good solution to implement applications that, for a long time, have used client/server architecture. However, this technology is confronted with security threats from agents and hosts. This paper presents a protocol which protects mobile agents from malicious hosts. This protocol is sufficiently robust so that it is durable and fault tolerant.

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory, (LARIM), Department of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada

    Abdelhamid Ouardani, Samuel Pierre & Hanifa Boucheneb

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  1. Abdelhamid Ouardani
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  1. FOKUS Fraunhofer-Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, P.O. Box, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  2. Multimedia & Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Canada, 161 Louis Pasteur St. Ottawa, P.O. Box, K1N 6N5, ON, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  3. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory, (LARIM), Department of Computer Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Station Centre-ville, P.O. Box 6079, H3C 3A7, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Samuel Pierre

  4. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, P.O. Box

    Iakovos Venieris

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Ouardani, A., Pierre, S., Boucheneb, H. (2005). A Secure Protocol for Mobile Agents in Hostile Environment. In: Magedanz, T., Karmouch, A., Pierre, S., Venieris, I. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11569510_19

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