Constructoion of Mobile Agent-based Secure Electronic Auction System
WU Guorong · 2003
In the area of electronic commerce, the technology of mobile trade agents can be used in the market research, buyer-merchant negotiation and on-lin e auction. Although the benefits resulting from the use of such intelligent assi stants for the end-users are not argued, it is empirically confirmed that Intern et buyers and merchants will use them widely, only when convinced that mobile tr ade agents are secure. This paper presents an agent-based model for collecting a nd evaluating purchase contracts, signed by Internet merchants. It aims to confr ont the security risks derived from mobile trade agents. The model uses a master -slave distributed agent architecture and proposes the authentication of mobile agents to auction servers, through agent permission tokens. In addition, it ana lyzes the security issues of the mobile agent based electronic auction protoco l.