Paper Info
Title
A Mechanism to Avoid Collusion Attacks Based on Code Passing in Mobile Agent Systems
Abstract
Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data, state and itinerary that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. Despite its benefits, security issues strongly restrict the use of code mobility. The protection of mobile agents against the attacks of malicious hosts is considered the most difficult security problem to solve in mobile agent systems. In particular, collusion attacks have been barely studied in the literature. This paper presents a mechanism that avoids collusion attacks based on code passing. Our proposal is based on a Multi-Code agent, which contains a different variant of the code for each host. A Trusted Third Party is responsible for providing the information to extract its own variant to the hosts, and for taking trusted timestamps that will be used to verify time coherence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-03944-7_2
WISTP
Keywords
Field
DocType
collusion attack,avoids collusion attack,different variant,malicious host,mobile agent,code passing,avoid collusion attacks,multi-code agent,code mobility,mobile agent systems,difficult security problem,mobile agent system,trusted third party
Trusted third party,Computer security,Computer science,Mobile agent,Software,Timestamp,Code mobility,restrict,Collusion,Mobile agent systems
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5746
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
22
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Jaimez100.34
Oscar Esparza228426.58
Jose L. Muñoz328725.68
Juan J. Alins-Delgado4262.96
Jorge Mata-Díaz510113.33