SECMAP: a secure mobile agent platform

Authors:
Suat Ugurlu;Nadia Erdogan
Affiliations:
Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga, Istanbul, Turkey;Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga, Istanbul, Turkey
Venue:
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper describes a mobile agent platform, Secure Mobile Agent Platform (SECMAP), and its security infrastructure. Unlike other agent systems, SECMAP proposes a new agent model, the shielded agent model, to meet security requirements and provides functionalities which ensure the implementation of the the shielded agent model. It provides secure agent communication and migration facilities, and maintains security policy information to examine agent actions and to prevent undesired/unauthorized activity, while employing cryptographic techniques to meet security constraints.