A Test Suite for the Evaluation of Mobile Agent Platform Security

Authors:
Axel Burkle;Barbara Essendorfer;Alice Hertel;Wilmuth Muller;Martin Wieser
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany
Venue:
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Agent mobility requires additional security measures. While the theoretical aspects of mobile agent security have been widely studied, there are few studies about the security levels of current agent platforms. In this paper, test cases are proposed to assess agent platform security. These tests focus on malicious agents trying to attack other agents or the agency. Currently, they have been carried out for two agent platforms: JADE and SeMoA. These tests show which of the known theoretical security problems are relevant in practice. Furthermore, they reveal how these problems are addressed by the respective platform and what security flaws are present.