Mobile Agent Security and Telescript

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Tardo;Luis Valente

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Telescript is a software technology for building distributed applications using the mobile agent paradigm. Telescript mobile agents are migrating processes capable of being executed on any Telescript service host. This paper describes the safety and security features of first-generation Telescript networks. These features are sufficient for deploying early mobile agent applications, subject to certain operating restrictions. The ultimate goal is the safe hosting of arbitrary, previously unseen programs, or "programming the network."