Secure Meeting Scheduling with Agenta

Abstract

When people want to schedule a meeting, the agendas of the participants must be compared to find a time suitable for all of them. However, at the same time participants want to keep their agendas private. This paper presents a negotiation protocol which tries to solve this contradiction. The protocol is implemented in the agenTa system using mobile software agents, hereby alleviating communication overhead and allowing disconnected operation.

On Securely Scheduling a Meeting

“…This paper builds on the work done in [6] and [3] and shows the trade-offs that can be made in security, level of trust, and efficiency, when choosing a particular negotiation protocol and a specific implementation approach.…”