Abstract:Mobile software agents are becoming a major trend of distributed systems in the next decade. Electronic commerce and information retrieval are two prospective applications of mobile agents. Nevertheless, security is a crucial concern for such systems. Attacks to agents by malicious hosts are the most challenging part of the problem unsolved. In this paper, a Shopping Information Agent System (SIAS) is built based on mobile agent technology. Possible security attacks by malicious hosts to agents in the system are discussed, and solutions to prevent these attacks are presented. Security of the solutions is analysed, and the performance overhead introduced is evaluated.
In this paper, we build a Shopping Information Agent System (SIAS) based on mobile agent technology. We discuss possible security attacks by malicious hosts to agents in the system, and present our solutions to prevent these attacks. We analyze the security of our solutions, and evaluate the performance overhead introduced.
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