Paper Info
Title
Secure Mobile Agents with Designated Hosts
Abstract
Mobile agents often travel in a hostile environment where their security and privacy could be compromised by any party including remote hosts in which agents visit and get services. It was proposed in the literature that the host visited by an agent should jointly sign a service agreement with the agent's home, where a proxy-signing model was deployed and every host in the agent system can sign. We observe that this actually poses a serious problem in that a host that should be excluded from an underlying agent network could also send a signed service agreement. In order to solve this problem, we propose a secure mobile agent scheme achieving host authentication with designated hosts, where only selected hosts can be included in the agent network. We also present a security model and provide a rigorous security proof to our scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/NSS.2009.59
NSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
underlying agent network,agents visit,remote host authentication,data privacy,secure mobile agent network,host authentication,designated host,mobile agent security,signed service agreement,rigorous security proof,agent network,designated hosts,authentication,random oracle model,agent system,remote host,security model,secure mobile agents,mobile agent,message authentication,secure mobile agent scheme,proxy-based mobile agent model,mobile agents,proxy-signing model,data mining,games,public key,agents,mobile communication,mobile,algorithm design and analysis,hosts
Authentication,Message authentication code,Computer security,Computer science,Mobile agent,Random oracle,Computer network,Information privacy,Public-key cryptography,Computer security model,Mobile telephony
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3838-9
2
0.40
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Zhang130.76
Yi Mu22884239.05
Minjie Zhang325530.01
R.H Deng44423362.82