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Article:Security Issues in Mobile Agents

by Priyanka Dadhich, Dr.Kamlesh Dutta, Dr. M.C.Govil
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 11 - Number 4
Year of Publication: 2010
Authors: Priyanka Dadhich, Dr.Kamlesh Dutta, Dr. M.C.Govil
10.5120/1574-2104

Priyanka Dadhich, Dr.Kamlesh Dutta, Dr. M.C.Govil . Article:Security Issues in Mobile Agents. International Journal of Computer Applications. 11, 4 ( December 2010), 1-7. DOI=10.5120/1574-2104

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author = { Priyanka Dadhich, Dr.Kamlesh Dutta, Dr. M.C.Govil },
title = { Article:Security Issues in Mobile Agents },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { December 2010 },
volume = { 11 },
number = { 4 },
month = { December },
year = { 2010 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-7 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume11/number4/1574-2104/ },
doi = { 10.5120/1574-2104 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

Software security to protect mobile agent consists of lots of aspects like cryptography, access control and trust management, intrusion detection and tamper resistance, authentication and privacy, signature schemes, e-commerce, security analysis, mobile computing security etc. So, to design and develop security mechanisms for mobile agents against malicious hosts this paper identifies different kinds of attacks and relationships between them. Security objectives and requirements are analyzed with security measures taken to protect mobile code, state and data.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Cryptography access control trust management intrusion detection authentication privacy signature schemes e-commerce