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Empowering Mobile Software Agents

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Mobile Agents (MA 2002)

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Recent work has shown that several cryptographic protocols for the protection of free-roaming mobile agents are vulnerable by means of protocol interleaving attacks. This paper presents equivalent protocols meant to be robust against this type of attack. Moreover, it describes the required processes and data structures at a level of detail that can be translated to an implementation in a straightforward way. Our aim is to demonstrate how cryptographic processing can be implemented transparently for agent programmers, thereby reducing the risks of human error in (secure) mobile agent programming.

This research was supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official opinion, either expressed or implied, by the DAAD.

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  1. Dept. Security Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Fraunhoferstr. 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Volker Roth

  2. International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, 94704-1198, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Volker Roth

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  1. Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, 40 South Alcaniz Street, 32501, Pensacola, FL, USA

    Niranjan Suri

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Roth, V. (2002). Empowering Mobile Software Agents. In: Suri, N. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2535. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36112-X_4

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