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SITA: Protecting Internet Trade Agents from Malicious Hosts

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2001)

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Abstract

The role of agents and their potential in the electronic marketplace has been discussed widely, but the issue of mobile agent vulnerability to attack, particularly from malicious hosts, needs further development. This paper describes our Secure Internet Trade Agents (SITA) framework that allows for multiple ‘window shopping’ agents to retrieve results, whilst providing anonymity for the user, and providing a manageable key structure.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7

    Mark Perry (Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7

    Qin Zhang

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

    Samuel Pierre

  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

    Roch Glitho

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Perry, M., Zhang, Q. (2001). SITA: Protecting Internet Trade Agents from Malicious Hosts. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_17

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