SECURE MOBILE AGENT TRADER SYSTEM

Document Type : Original Article

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Computer Systems Eng. Department, Faculty of Engineering,Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Mobile agent systems (MASs)
that travel autonomously through a computer network in order to perform some computation or gather
information on behalf of a human user or an application.
business applications. In most applications, the security of mobile agents is of the utmost importance.
this paper, we propose a MAS
environment.Public key infrastructure is used in
authentication. Policy-based security management has become a growing research area for mobile
agent security. To ensure authorization in
used to grant privileges to agents according to their roles. X.509 certificate is the most widely used data
format for public key certificates.
information in its OU (organization unit) field, to make sure
environment are given access to certain data or resources according to their roles.
may be tampered by malicious agent to misuse its privileges. To ensure agent’s integrity, agent code
encrypted, signedand added in X.509 certificate to be checked before agent execution.
confidentiality, information that needs to be protected from disclosure like agent’s shopping list is
encrypted while travelling through communication channels to preven
eavesdropping.

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