Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

  • Authors:

  • Carles Garrigues;Sergi Robles;Joan Borrell;Guillermo Navarro-Arribas

  • Affiliations:

  • Estudis d'Informítica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicacions, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Rambla del Poblenou 156, 08018 Barcelona, Spain;Dept. d'Enginyeria de la Informació i de les Comunicacions, Edifici Q (ETSE), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;Dept. d'Enginyeria de la Informació i de les Comunicacions, Edifici Q (ETSE), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;IIIA, Institut d'Investigació en Intelligència Artificial, CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.