A security architecture for agent-based mobile systems

Borselius, Niklas; Kaprynski, M.

doi:10.1049/cp:20020411

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“…Secondly, from the mobile agent point of view, it needs to protect the agent from malicious hosts. Therefore, security [4], [5], [6] is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent applications. The system should have a program that actively protects itself against execution environment that possibly may divert the intended execution towards a malicious goal.…”

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Security on Mobile Agent Based Crawler (SMABC)

Pahal¹,

Kumar²,

Bhardwaj³

et al. 2010

IJCA

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Mobile agents are active objects that can autonomously migrate in a network to perform tasks on behalf of their owners. Current web crawler uses the concept of Mobile Agent to enhance their crawling speed. In mobile crawling, mobile agents are dispatched to remote web severs for local crawling and processing of web documents. After crawling a specific web server, they dispatch themselves either back at the search engine machine, or at the next web server for further crawling. It gives a complete distributed crawling strategy by utilizing the mobile agent's technology but it suffers with the problem of security. In this paper, a security solution has been proposed, which protects both the mobile agent itself and the host resources that encrypt the data before passing it to mobile agent and decrypt it on the visited host sides. The method of "computing with encryption function" has been used. The proposed approach solves the problem of malicious host that can harm mobile agent or the information it contain.

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Section: Drawbacks Of Mobile-agent Based Crawlermentioning

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Security on Mobile Agent Based Crawler (SMABC)

Pahal¹,

Kumar²,

Bhardwaj³

et al. 2010

IJCA

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“…The scale of vulnerabilities, as shown in Table 3, delineates the research issues at each level of complexity and can be used as a research roadmap to fulfil MAS-specific security requirements of the most complex forms of MAS. **** Table 3 about here **** Agent security requirements for communication channels are equivalent to the normal requirements for confidentiality, integrity, authentication and availability required by a typical software application [4]. Security of communication channels is not included in the MAS-specific security requirements.…”

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“…This typically means that security enforcement mechanisms have to be retrofitted into a pre-existing design. This approach leads to serious design challenges that usually translate into the emergence of agent-based systems afflicted with security vulnerabilities [4,23].…”

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A security-aware metamodel for multi-agent systems (MAS)

Beydoun

Low

Mouratidis

et al. 2009

Information and Software Technology

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Systems (MAS)'Abstract. This paper adopts a Model Based Security (MBS) approach to identify security requirements during the early stages of multi-agent system development. Our adopted MBS approach is underpinned by a metamodel independent of any specific methodology. It allows for security considerations to be embedded within any situated agent methodology which then prescribes security considerations within its work products. Using a standard model-driven engineering (MDE) approach, these work products are initially constructed as high abstraction models and then transformed into more precise models until code-specific models can be produced. A multi-agent system case study is used to illustrate the applicability of the proposed security-aware metamodel.

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“…Over the years, there have been quite a number of researches targeted for agent integrity protection in one way or another. One of the newest active researches is the security architecture by Borselius [18]. While many of the security services are still under active research, the security mechanisms for protecting agents against malicious host is describe in [19].…”

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“…While the research in [18][19] is actively underway, there are other more mature researches in the area. One of such research work on agent protection is SOMA.…”

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Secure agent data integrity shield

Guan

Yang

2004

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

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In the rapidly expanding field of E-Commerce, mobile agent is the emerging technology that addresses the requirement of intelligent filtering/processing of information. This paper will address the area of mobile agent data integrity protection. We propose the use of Secure Agent Data Integrity Shield (SADIS) as a scheme that protects the integrity of data collected during agent roaming. With the use of a key seed negotiation protocol and integrity protection protocol, SADIS protects the secrecy as well as the integrity of agent data. Any illegal data modification, deletion, or insertion can be detected either by the subsequent host or the agent butler. Most important of all, the identity of each malicious host can be established. To evaluate the feasibility of our design, a prototype has been developed using Java. The result of benchmarking shows improvement both in terms of data and time efficiency.

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A security architecture for agent-based mobile systems

Cited by 9 publications

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Security on Mobile Agent Based Crawler (SMABC)

Security on Mobile Agent Based Crawler (SMABC)

A security-aware metamodel for multi-agent systems (MAS)

Secure agent data integrity shield

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