Abstract
It is expected that mobile agent will be widely used for electronic commerce as an important key technology. If a mobile agent can sign a message in a remote server on behalf of a customer without exposing his/her private key, it can be used not only to search for special products or services, but also to make a contract with a remote server. To construct mobile agents, [[KBC00]] used an RSA-based undetachable signature scheme, but it does not provide server’s non-repudiation because the undetachable signature does not contain server’s signature. Mobile agent is a very good application example of proxy signature, and the undetachable signature can be considered as an example of proxy signature. In this paper we show that secure mobile agent can be constructed using strong non-designated proxy signature [[LKK01]] which represents both the original signer’s (customer) and the proxy signer’s (remote server) signatures. We provide RSA-based and Schnorr-based constructions of secure mobile agent, and moreover we show that the Schnorr-based scheme can be used very efficiently in multi-proxy mobile agent situation.
This work was done when she was with ICU.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
W. Farmer, J. Gutmann and V. Swarup, “Security for Mobile Agents: Authentication and State Appraisal”, Proc. of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), LNCS 1146, Springer-Verlag, pp. 118–130, 1996.
P. Kotzanikolaous, M. Burmester and V. Chrissikopoulos, “Secure Transactions with Mobile Agents in Hostile Environments”, ACISP 2000, LNCS 1841, Springer-Verlag, pp. 289–297, 2000.
H. Kim, J. Baek, B. Lee, and K. Kim, “Secret Computation with Secrets for Mobile Agent using One-time Proxy Signature”, Proc. of SCIS2001, pages 845–850, 2001.
P. Kotzanikolaous, G. Katsirelos and V. Chrissikopoulos, “Mobile Agents for Secure Electronic Transactions”, Recent Advances in Signal Processing and Communications, World Scientific and Engineering Society Press, pp. 363–368, 1999.
S. Kim, S. Park, and D. Won, “Proxy Signatures, Revisited”, Proc. of ICICS’97, Y. Han et al(Eds.), LNCS 1334, Springer-Verlag, pages 223–232, 1997.
B. Lee, H. Kim and K. Kim, “Strong Proxy Signature and its Applications”, Proc. of SCIS2001, pages 603–608, 2001.
S. Loureio and R. Molva, “Privacy for Mobile Code”, Proc. of Distributed Object Security Workshop OOPSLA’ 99, 6 pages, 1999.
A. Menezes, P. Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, pages 617–618, CRC Press, 1997.
J. Merwe and S.H. Solms, “Electronic Commerce with Secure Intelligent Trade Agents”, Proc. of ICICS’97, Y. Han et al(Eds.), LNCS 1334, Springer-Verlag, pp. 452–462, 1997.
M. Mambo, K. Usuda, and E. Okamoto, “Proxy Signatures: Delegation of the Power to Sign Messages”, IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals, Vol. E79-A, No. 9, Sep., pages 1338–1353, 1996.
R. Otomura, M. Soshi, and A. Miyaji, “On Digital Signature Schemes for Mobile Agents”, Proc. of SCIS2001, pages 851–855, 2001.
H. Petersen and P. Horster, “Self-certified Keys-Concepts and Applications”, Proc. Communications and Multimedia Security’97, pages 102–116, Chapman & Hall, 1997.
D. Pointcheval and J. Stern, “Security Proofs for Signatures”, Advances in Cryptology: Eurocrypt’96, pages 387–398, Springer, 1996.
T. Sander and C. F. Tschudin, “Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Hosts”, Mobile Agent Security, LNCS 1419, Springer-Verlag, pp. 44–60, 1997.
L. Yi, G. Bai and G. Xiao, “Proxy Multi-signature Scheme: A New Type of Proxy Signature Scheme”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 6, pages 527–528, 16th March 2000.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lee, B., Kim, H., Kim, K. (2001). Secure Mobile Agent Using Strong Non-designated Proxy Signature. In: Varadharajan, V., Mu, Y. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47719-5_37
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47719-5_37
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-42300-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-47719-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive