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Mobile Agents and Security

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Giovanni Vigna

    1. Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1419)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Foundations

    1. Security Issues in Mobile Code Systems

      • David M. Chess
      Pages 1-14

    2. Environmental Key Generation Towards Clueless Agents

      • James Riordan, Bruce Schneier
      Pages 15-24

    3. Language Issues in Mobile Program Security

      • Dennis Volpano, Geoffrey Smith
      Pages 25-43

    4. Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Hosts

      • Tomas Sander, Christian F. Tschudin
      Pages 44-60

  3. Security Mechanisms

    1. Safe, Untrusted Agents Using Proof-Carrying Code

      • George C. Necula, Peter Lee
      Pages 61-91

    2. Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts

      • Fritz Hohl
      Pages 92-113

    3. Authentication for Mobile Agents

      • Shimshon Berkovits, Joshua D. Guttman, Vipin Swarup
      Pages 114-136

    4. Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents

      • Giovanni Vigna
      Pages 137-153

  4. Mobile Code Systems

    1. D’Agents: Security in a Multiple-Language, Mobile-Agent System

      • Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, Daniela Rus
      Pages 154-187

    2. A Security Model for Aglets

      • Günter Karjoth, Danny B. Lange, Mitsuru Oshima
      Pages 188-205

    3. Signing, Sealing, and Guarding Java™ Objects

      • Li Gong, Roland Schemers
      Pages 206-216

  5. Active Content and Security

    1. The Safe-Tcl Security Model

      • John K. Ousterhout, Jacob Y. Levy, Brent B. Welch
      Pages 217-234

    2. Web Browsers and Security

      • Flavio De Paoli, Andre L. Dos Santos, Richard A. Kemmerer
      Pages 235-256

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 257-257
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New paradigms can popularize old technologies. A new \standalone" paradigm, the electronic desktop, popularized the personal computer. A new \connected" paradigm, the web browser, popularized the Internet. Another new paradigm, the mobile agent, may further popularize the Internet by giving people greater access to it with less eort. MobileAgentParadigm The mobile agent paradigm integrates a network of computers in a novel way designed to simplify the development of network applications. To an application developer the computers appear to form an electronic world of places occupied by agents. Each agent or place in the electronic world has the authority of an individual or an organization in the physical world. The authority can be established, for example, cryptographically. A mobile agent can travel from one place to another subject to the des- nation place’s approval. The source and destination places can be in the same computer or in di erent computers. In either case,the agentinitiates the trip by executing a \go" instruction which takes as an argument the name or address of the destination place. The next instruction in the agent’s program is executed in the destination place, rather than in the source place. Thus, in a sense, the mobile agent paradigm reduces networking to a program instruction. A mobile agent can interact programmatically with the places it visits and, if the other agents approve, with the other agents it encounters in those places.

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  • Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Giovanni Vigna

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