Efficient Key Management Scheme for Mobile Agent in a Hierarchy

Author

Liu, Yi ; Ding, Yong

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-19 April 2011

Firstpage

780

Lastpage

782

Abstract

Mobile agents are autonomous software entities that are able to migrate across different execution environments. The characteristics of mobile agents make them ideal for electronic commerce applications in open networks. Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper, using discrete logarithm, an efficient key management proposal for mobile agent based on hierarchical structure is presented and its security is analyzed. It can achieve the property that related parameters do not have to update even if set secret keys are altered. So, the presented scheme may be more suitable for applications.

Keywords

electronic commerce; mobile agents; autonomous software; discrete logarithm; efficient key management; electronic commerce; hierarchical structure; key management scheme; mobile agent system; Computers; Consumer electronics; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Security; Silicon; Software; discrete logarithm; hierarchy; key management; mobile agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO), 2011 Fourth International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Yunnan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9712-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4335-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSO.2011.122

Filename

5957773