Application Security Models for Mobile Agent Systems

doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2005.09.041

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volume 157, Issue 3, 25 May 2006, Pages 43-59

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Abstract

Mobile agents are a distributed computing paradigm based on mobile autonomous programs. Mobile applications must balance security requirements with available security mechanisms in order to meet application level security goals. We introduce a trust framework to reason about application security requirements, trust expression, and agent protection mechanisms. We develop application security models that capture initial trust relationships and consider their use for mobile agent security.

Keywords

Mobile agents

trust

security

application requirements

software protection

models

frameworks

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¹: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

²: This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Office under grant number DAAD19-02-1-0235.