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Protecting the computation results of free-roaming agents

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Mobile Agents (MA 1998)

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When mobile agents do comparison shopping for their owners, they are subject to attacks of malicious hosts executing the agents. We present a family of protocols that protect the computation results established by free-roaming mobile agents. Our protocols enable the owner of the agent to detect upon its return whether a visited host has maliciously altered the state of the agent, thus providing forward integrity and truncation resilience. In an environment without public-key infrastructure, the protocols are based only on a secret hash chain. With a public-key infrastructure, the protocols also guarantee non-repudiability.

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  1. Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research Division, Switzerland

    G. Karjoth, N. Asokan & C. Gülcü

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  1. G. Karjoth
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Kurt Rothermel Fritz Hohl

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Karjoth, G., Asokan, N., Gülcü, C. (1998). Protecting the computation results of free-roaming agents. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057659

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