Design and implementation of the mobile agent with forward-secure digital signature
Hongyun Zhao · Jounal of Xidian University · 2001
The mobile agent system, which raises the efficiency of the whole network by using the asynchronous communication mode as a software agent, will play an important role in the distributed computer system in the future. However, the mobile software agent is vulnerable to attack from a malicious program running on the host and it is the crux of the mobile agents secure running to protect them against tampering by malicious hosts and secure protocols available are unsuitable for mobile agents environments. On the basis of an onion routing technique and a smart card technique, a mobile agent system using the forward-secure digital signature is proposed, and finally an analysis of its security is made.