Constructing secure mobile-agent-based consumer electronic applications

Authors:
Woei-Jiunn Tsaur;Gin-We Liu
Affiliations:
Department of Information Management, Da-Yeh University, Changhua, Taiwan;Department of Information Management, Da-Yeh University, Changhua, Taiwan
Venue:
ACOS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper proposes two appropriate security schemes for protecting consumer electronic applications in mobile agent based networks. As far as mobile agent security is concerned, we develop a proxy signature scheme for protecting mobile agents against malicious agent hosts using the ECC-based self-certified public key cryptosystem. The proposed proxy signature scheme can protect users' private keys, and provide the fairness of contracts signed by agents. In addition, based on the proposed proxy signature scheme, we further design a proxy authenticated encryption scheme so that the signature of the contracts will satisfy users' constraints, and the non-repudiation of servers can be achieved. Furthermore, we also implement the proposed security schemes to achieve security requirements of confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation for protecting Linux-based mobile agents in an electronic auction application. Hence, we affirm that the proposed security schemes are suitable for protecting consumer electronic applications in mobile-agent-based network environments.