Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2009
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.
Keywords
authentication, mobile agent security
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Cybersecurity
Publication
NSS '09: Third International Conference on Network and System Security: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 19-21 October 2009
First Page
286
Last Page
293
ISBN
9780769538389
Identifier
10.1109/NSS.2009.59
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Citation
ZHANG, Qi; MU, Yi; ZHANG, Minji; and DENG, Robert H..
Secure Mobile Agents with Designated Hosts. (2009). NSS '09: Third International Conference on Network and System Security: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 19-21 October 2009. 286-293.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/633
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NSS.2009.59