An approach to mobile agent security in Java
By: Roy John Virden
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Description: For many years, people have talked about the advantages of programs that can roam networks and provide      services for a client. The programs, called agents, have many military applications as well. Among them, for      instance, is data mining, where an agent is dispatched to find information for a client. There are security risks      associated with agents. For instance, in the data mining example, a client must be able to trust the information      returned. If a trusted node in a network can be spoofed, then an untrusted node can easily corrupt the results of      the mining operation. This thesis presents a protocol to guard against this sort of attack. The protocol assumes      that every trusted host knows all other trusted hosts. Though unrealistic for some commercial applications, it      seems like a reasonable assumption for military applications.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Dennis M. Volpano.

"March 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86)

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