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Mobile agents are more likely to be launched over the Internet to collect information. However, an autonomous agent running on a host may suffer attacks if the host is malicious. Possible targets of attacks include: the collected information or the agent itself, including its route. In this paper, we propose a new secure route structure, which provides enhanced security and robust solution to protect an agent’s route. Besides security and robustness, the solution also offers features such as: flexibility in routing and high performance. In addition, we highlight areas where we can apply agents to collect information, with the use of the secure route structure: electronic commerce and intrusion detection system.
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Li, T., Seng, C.Y., Lam, K.Y. (2000). A Secure Route Structure for Information Gathering Agent. In: Zhang, C., Soo, VW. (eds) Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents. PRIMA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44594-3_8
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