Protecting Mobile Agent Itineraries

Mir, Joan Francesc; Borrell, Joan

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39646-8_26

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“…The proposed solutions include the use of cooperative agents (Roth, 1998;Ouardani et al, 2007), cryptographic tracing (Vigna, 1997), obfuscated code (Hohl, 1998), secure coprocessors (Yee, 1994), protection of the computational results (Maggi and Sisto, 2003), or cryptographic protection of itineraries (Mir and Borrell, 2003).…”

Section: Mobile Agent Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the protection of the agent's itinerary, techniques such as Karnik and Tripathi (2001) or Roth (2002) enable the protection sequential itineraries. On the other hand, Mir and Borrell (2003) and Garrigues et al (2008b) also support the protection of flexible itineraries.…”

Section: Mobile Agent Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Protocols such as Mir and Borrell (2003) and Maggi and Sisto (2003) can be used to protect the agent's itinerary and results, and a pre-existing implementation of these protocols is already provided in Garrigues et al (2008a). Therefore, adding security to this application can require no extra effort.…”

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Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

Garrigues¹,

Robles²,

Borrell³

et al. 2010

Journal of Systems and Software

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In this paper we present a software architecture and a development environment for the implementation of applications based on secure mobile agents. Recent breakthroughs in mobile agent security have unblocked this technology, but there is still one important issue to overcome: the complexity of programming applications using these security solutions. Our proposal aims to facilitate and speed up the process of implementing cryptographic protocols, and to allow the reuse of these protocols for the development of secure mobile agents. As a result, the proposed architecture and development environment promote the use of mobile agent technology for the implementation of secure distributed applications.

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Section: Mobile Agent Securitymentioning

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Section: Mobile Agent Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

Garrigues¹,

Robles²,

Borrell³

et al. 2010

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“…The protection of static itineraries is based on the protocol presented in Mir and Borrell (2003). The main dierence between this and our approach is that we provide our mobile agents with a control code that manages their own protection mechanisms.…”

Section: Protection Of Static Itinerariesmentioning

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Securing dynamic itineraries for mobile agent applications

Garrigues

Robles

Borrell

2008

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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)>IJH=?J In this paper we present a novel mechanism for the protection of dynamic itineraries for mobile agent applications. Itineraries that are decided as the agent goes are essential in complex applications based on mobile agents, but no approach has been presented until now to protect them. We have conceived a cryptographic scheme for shielding dynamic itineraries from tampering, impersonation and disclosure. By using trust strategically, our scheme provides a balanced trade-o between exibility and security. Our protection scheme has been thought always bearing in mind a feasible implementation, and thus facilitates the development of applications that make use of it. An example application based on a real healthcare scenario is also presented to show its operation.

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“…The problem of current solutions (Yee, 2003;Westhoff et al, 1999;Wilhelm et al, 1998;Li et al, 2000;Suen, 2003;Mir and Borrell, 2003;Che et al, 2006;Cucurull et al, 2005) against external replay attacks is that they do not allow an agent to be executed n times on the same platform, especially if n is determined at runtime. However, the agent's itinerary often contains roundtrips that require the same platform to be visited several times.…”

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Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks

Garrigues

Migas

Buchanan

et al. 2009

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This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching an agent multiple times to a remote host, thus making it reexecute part of its itinerary. Current proposals aiming to address this problem are based on storing agent identifiers, or trip markers, inside agent platforms, so that future reexecutions can be detected and prevented. The problem of these solutions is that they do not allow the agent to perform legal migrations to the same platform several times. The aim of this paper is to address these issues by presenting a novel solution based on authorisation entities, which allow the agent to be reexecuted on the same platform a number of times determined at runtime. The proposed protocol is secure under the assumption that authorisation entities are trusted.

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Protecting Mobile Agent Itineraries

Cited by 13 publications

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Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

Securing dynamic itineraries for mobile agent applications

Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks

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