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Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts (1998)
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@MISC{Hohl98timelimited,
author = {Fritz Hohl},
title = {Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
. In this paper, an approach to partially solve one of the most difficult aspects of security of mobile agents systems is presented, the problem of malicious hosts. This problem consists in the possibility of attacks against a mobile agent by the party that maintains an agent system node, a host. The idea to solve this problem is to create a blackbox out of an original agent. A blackbox is an agent that performs the same work as the original agent, but is of a different structure. This difference allows to assume a certain agent protection time interval, during which it is impossible for an attacker to discover relevant data or to manipulate the execution of the agent. After that time interval the agent and some associated data get invalid and the agent cannot migrate or interact anymore, which prevents the exploitation of attacks after the protection interval. Time Limited Blackbox Security 91 in mobile code systems and have to be designed using standard cryptographic techniques lik...
Keyphrases
malicious host mobile agent time limited blackbox security original agent agent cannot migrate protection interval standard cryptographic technique mobile code system different structure mobile agent system relevant data difficult aspect agent system node certain agent protection time interval
