An improved execution integrity solution for mobile agents

Authors:
Michelangelo Giansiracusa;Selwyn Russell;Andrew Clark;John Hynd
Affiliations:
Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Venue:
ACISP'05 Proceedings of the 10th Australasian conference on Information Security and Privacy
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new infrastructural approach to providing mobile agent execution integrity, a very important property – especially to the confidence an agent user can place in the results of its deployed autonomous mobile agents. Existing mobile agent execution integrity schemes are shown to be comparatively inferior when analysed in light of a number of essential robustness properties. We provide an analysis of Hohl’s reference states scheme and introduce our novel execution integrity scheme, which builds – in part – on Hohl’s scheme. Besides significantly improving on this existing scheme, our scheme meets all of the desired criteria for a robust execution integrity scheme.