Title :
An efficient key management scheme for mobile agents in distributed networks
Author :
Nikooghadam, Morteza ; Safaei, Farshad ; Zakerolhosseini, Ali
Author_Institution :
Fac. of ECE, Shahid Beheshti Univ. G.C., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
In recent years, the Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC) has attracted a great deal of attention due to its advantages. In this paper, a new ECC based scheme in a hierarchical mobile agent framework is presented. In the proposed scheme legality of agents is verified by hosts to avoid the masquerade attack. Analyzing the security criteria and performance reports the suitability of the proposed scheme for mobile agent environments.
Keywords :
computer network security; mobile agents; public key cryptography; distributed network; elliptic curve cryptosystem; key management scheme; mobile agent; security criteria; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Mobile agents; Polynomials; Silicon; distributed system; elliptic curve cryptosystems; key management; mobile agent security;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC), 2010 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Solan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7675-6
DOI :
10.1109/PDGC.2010.5679612
