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Mobile Agents and Security

Mobile Agents and Security

Vigna, Giovanni

Paperback

Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Book 1419

Technology & EngineeringOperating SystemsComputer Security

ISBN10: 3540647929
ISBN13: 9783540647928
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jun 29 1998
Pages: 257
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.19 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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