Mobile Agents and Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vigna, Giovanni (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1419
• Subjects: Data encryption (Computer science).; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer communication systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Cryptology.; Operating Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

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 givin...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations
• Security Issues in Mobile Code Systems
• Environmental Key Generation Towards Clueless Agents
• Language Issues in Mobile Program Security
• Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Hosts
• Security Mechanisms
• Safe, Untrusted Agents Using Proof-Carrying Code
• Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts
• Authentication for Mobile Agents
• Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents
• Mobile Code Systems
• D'Agents: Security in a Multiple-Language, Mobile-Agent System
• A Security Model for Aglets
• Signing, Sealing, and Guarding Java™ Objects
• Active Content and Security
• The Safe-Tcl Security Model
• Web Browsers and Security.