An approach to designing security model for mobile agent based systems

Author

Varadharajan, V. ; Kumar, N. ; Mu, Y.

Author_Institution

Distributed Syst. & Network Security Res., Univ. of W. Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

1600

Abstract

This paper considers the design of a security model for mobile agent based computing systems. The security model proposes the notion of a security enhanced agent that captures a variety of security information needed in the provision of security services. It defines the privileges of the agent required to perform the actions, the rights that other principals can have over the agent as well as delegation of privileges. The security model identifies security management and policy based components in agent enabled hosts which interpret the privileges and rights of agents and enforce the security controls

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed programming; message authentication; open systems; software agents; agent enabled hosts; authentication; client server based distributed systems; computing systems; heterogeneous open network environment; mobile agent based systems; mobile code systems; policy based components; privileges; rights; security controls; security enhanced agent; security information capture; security management; security model design; security services; Autonomous agents; Communication system security; Computer languages; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Information security; Internet; Java; Mobile agents; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776660

Filename

776660