Self-Protected Mobile Agents
Jaume Ametller, Sergi Robles, J. A. Ortega-Ruiz · 2004
In this paper, we present a new solution for the imple-mentation of flexible protection mechanisms in the context of mobile agent systems, where security problems are cur-rently a major issue. In our scheme, agents protect their code and data by carrying their own protection mecha-nisms. This approach improves traditional solutions, where protection was managed by the platform. The implementa-tion is far from trivial. We have implemented this scheme in the JADE framework, using Java. Any application using mobile agents can incorporate these mechanisms to imple-ment agent protection with a minimum impact in the its ex-isting code base. 1.