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Detection of Malicious Host Attacks by Tracing with Randomly Selected Hosts

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Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004)

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The security aspect is crucial to the deployment of the mobile agent technology to commercial applications. The main issue is how to prevent the malicious modifications of code and data in the mobile agents, as the mobile agents may travel to different hosts to carry out tasks in an open environment. In this paper, we present a detection mechanism using tracing which provides more efficiency and higher privacy. Moreover, the performance of the protocol is analyzed in this paper. Some optimizations are also suggested to improve the performance.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR

    Kwai-Ki Leung & Kam-Wing Ng

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  1. Kwai-Ki Leung
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  1. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  3. University of Delaware, Newark, DE

    Guang R. Gao

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ 08544, Princeton, USA

    Niraj K. Jha

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Leung, KK., Ng, KW. (2004). Detection of Malicious Host Attacks by Tracing with Randomly Selected Hosts. In: Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Gao, G.R., Jha, N.K. (eds) Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing. EUC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3207. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30121-9_80

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