NOVEL STRUCTURE FOR SECURE MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM IN E-COMMERCE APPLICATION

Mobile agents are programs that travel autonomously through a computer network in order to perform some computation or gather information on behalf of a human user or an application. In the last several years numerous applications of mobile agents have emerged, including e-commerce, e-voting and data mining. However, mobile agent paradigm introduces a number of security threats both to the agents themselves and to the servers that they visit. The first part of this paper presents a web-based mobile agent system for e-commerce application calledftOrder ProductIn this system, one of traditional security mechanisms applied that protect mobile agent against malicious platforms. This mechanism called Computing with Encrypted Functions based on RSA algorithm . The second part of the paper proposes a novel structure forOrder Product19system. The main criteria of the proposed structure is to increase the security level of mobile agent against malicious threats. The system uses a new technique called Scout and Routed agents that depend on a Reputation- based Trust approach