Abstract:This paper proposes a new method of data authentication and encryption for distributed networks supporting mobile software agents. Software agents are a valuable instrument in wireless distributed monitoring networks, because they can be used to concentrate monitoring efforts in certain areas where an event is taking place. In this way, events can be tracked in a dynamic and efficient way. Mobile agents have to send messages to each other in order to coordinate their actions, and those messages need to be secu… Show more
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