An Architecture for Authorization and Delegation in Distributed Object-Oriented Agent Systems (1999)
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@MISC{Nikander99anarchitecture,
author = {Pekka Nikander},
title = {An Architecture for Authorization and Delegation in Distributed Object-Oriented Agent Systems},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Public key infrastructures and authentication protocols, in the sense they are currently known, have been publicly studied since 1978 [23]. In this work I demonstrate how I, together with the research group I have had the privilege to direct, have further developed these concepts in the Object-Oriented field. In our research, we have implemented a public key based system that allows distributed agents to securely co-operate in an insecure network. In this thesis, I focus on the following four interrelated aspects. First, I define a concrete secure software architecture for distributed software agents. Second, I describe our implementation of an Object-Oriented protocol framework for cryptographic protocols. Third, I show how an authorization based Public Key Infrastructure can be used to manage the security of Java based, Object-Oriented software Agents. And finally, I describe how this infrastructure can be extended to support distributed, secure agent execution and permission delega...
