Towards Secure Agent Computing for Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

Maña, Antonio; Muñoz, Antonio; Serrano, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73549-6_117

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“…The reason for this happen is that the protection of mobile agents against the attacks of malicious hosts is considered the most difficult security problem to solve in mobile agents systems. Indeed, in [18] is shown how scientific community has put many efforts in this field, many applications exist based on this technology. However, all this efforts are wasted due to the lack of a secure and robust basis to build applications based on agent technology.…”

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Agent Protection Based on the Use of Cryptographic Hardware

Muñoz

Maña

Harjani

et al. 2009

2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Mobile agents are processes that can migrate autonomously from new hosts. Despite of the huge number of fields of application of this technology, a lack in the security exists. The main approach of this work is based on the provision of a secure execution environment for mobile agents. Our approach is based on the idea of the trusted migration. This trusted migration is reached by means of the use of cryptographic hardware. Concretely, Trusted Computing Module (TPM). Thus, we have designed and developed a specific protocol, which is the basis to build the solution. In order to build our solution on a robust basis, we have validated this protocol by means of a model checking tool called AVISPA. Finally, we built a library to provide access to TPM (Trusted Platform Module) functionalities. The idea behind of this is based on the easy in using cryptographic hardware in the agent based systems development, disposing to agent developers of the security related tasks of their systems. The most relevant aspects of this library are described along this paper both at development stage of it and while we use it to develop a system based agent.

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“…In [18] two different solutions are presented to provide a secure framework for agent based applications development. The first of these consists on a standalone software solution, which makes use of the entitled approach 'protected computing' [10].…”

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Agent Protection Based on the Use of Cryptographic Hardware

Muñoz

Maña

Harjani

et al. 2009

2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

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“…This paper focuses on multiagent systems and the security within them. More specifically, our work deals with static mutual security schemes [7] and is organized as follows: in Section 2 we review related publications and we introduce the MAS (multiagent system), mobile agents, JADE platform, and security schemes. Section 3 presents the application of the protected computing approach in the agent protection.…”

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Multiagent Systems Protection

Muñoz

Antón

Maña

2011

Advances in Software Engineering

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Agent-systems can bring important benefits especially in applications scenarios where highly distributed, autonomous, intelligence, self-organizing, and robust systems are required. Furthermore, the high levels of autonomy and self-organizations of agent systems provide excellent support for developments of systems in which dependability is essential. Both Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence scenarios belong in this category. Unfortunately, the lack of appropriate security mechanisms, both their enforcement and usability, is hindering the application of this paradigm in real-world applications. Security issues play an important role in the development of multiagent systems and are considered to be one of the main issues to solve before agent technology is ready to be widely used outside the research community. In this paper, we present a software based solution for the protection of multiagent systems concentrating on the cooperative agents model and the protected computing approach.

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“…Scientific community has devoted important efforts to this field [4]. Indeed, many current applications exist based on this technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Reference [4] two different solutions to provide agent protection are introduced. Firstly, a software-based solution built on the protected computing approach, based on the previous work of Maña [5].…”

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TPM‐based protection for mobile agents

Muñoz¹,

Maña²

2010

Security Comm Networks

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Mobile agent is a promising paradigm for emerging ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligent scenarios. We believe that security is the most important issue for the widespread deployment of applications based on mobile agent technology. Indeed, community agrees that without the proper security mechanisms, use of mobile agent-based applications will be impossible. From our perspective, the security problem in mobile agents is the gathering of two subproblems; the problem of the agent protection and the problem of the host protection. This paper presents a hardware-based mechanism focused on solving the protection of the agent problem, which is a well known problem named the 'malicious host'. The solution presented in this paper bases its security in the trust and the security functionalities provided by the trusted platform module (TPM). Thus, migration process of mobile agents is protected when it actually takes place. A complete description of the secure migration can be found in the secure migration protocol section of this paper. Moreover, a validation of this protocol was performed by means of the AVISPA tool suite. Additionally, a first study about the use of an alternative protocol as the direct anonymous attestation protocol was done. Finally, the result of this work is the Secure Migration Library for agents (SecMiLiA), which is completely described in following sections.

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Towards Secure Agent Computing for Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

Agent Protection Based on the Use of Cryptographic Hardware

Agent Protection Based on the Use of Cryptographic Hardware

Multiagent Systems Protection

TPM‐based protection for mobile agents

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