A security architecture and design for mobile intelligent agent systems
Son T. Vuong, Peng Fu · ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review · 2001
Although mobile intelligent agent technology greatly promises to provide an elegant and efficient way of solving complex distributed problems as well as offering a new approach to human-computer-interaction, the general lack of security measures in existing mobile intelligent agent systems severely restricts their scope of applicability. In this paper, we focus on the security design issues for mobile intelligent systems. We propose a security architecture and implement a security system based on the architecture for a novel mobile intelligent system, Actigen. This security system makes use of a rich security model that provides an identification capability to each principal and supports system resource access control to a very fine level of granularity. The security system also offers some methods to detect if the behavior or data of an Actigen agent is tampered. Although the security architecture was developed for Actigen, its applicability can be generally suited to any mobile intelligent systems.