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Aglets are Java-based mobile agents developed at IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory. This article describes a security model for the aglets development environment that supports flexible architectural definition of security policies.
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Karjoth, G., Lange, D.B., Oshima, M. (1998). A Security Model for Aglets. In: Vigna, G. (eds) Mobile Agents and Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1419. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68671-1_10
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