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Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study

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Mobile Agents (MA 2001)

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The aim of the work presented in this paper is to check cryptographic protocols for mobile agents against both network intruders and malicious hosts using formal methods. We focus attention on data integrity properties and show how the techniques used for classical message-based protocols such as authentication protocols can be applied to mobile agent systems as well. To illustrate our approach, we use a case study taken from the literature and show how it can be specified and verified using some currently available tools.

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  1. Dip. di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129, Torino, ITALY

    Xavier Hannotin, Paolo Maggi & Riccardo Sisto

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    Gian Pietro Picco

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Hannotin, X., Maggi, P., Sisto, R. (2001). Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study. In: Picco, G.P. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45647-3_4

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