Protection in a Mobile Agent System
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Protection in a Mobile Agent System
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1997
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Security is perceived as the major obstacle to the widespread acceptance and deployment
of mobile agent systems in an open, distributed environment such as the Internet. Two fundamental
problems in such systems are, the protection of host resources from agents visiting
from untrusted domains, and the protection of agent contents from malicious hosts. This pa.per
only addresses the resource protection problem in a mobile agent system implemented using
Java objects. This involves the creation of separate protection domains for visiting agents, and
granting them controlled access to host resources.We review several approaches for protecting
resources, and discuss our design of a proxy-based mechanism for addressing this problem. We
use elements of the Java security model and its class-hierarchy based type model in developing
this design.
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Tripathi, Anand R.; Karnik, Neeran M.. (1997). Protection in a Mobile Agent System. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/215342.
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