Security for Mobile Agents: Issues and Requirements
William M. Farmer, Joshua D. Guttman, Vipin Swarup · 1996
Mobile agents are processes which can autonomously migrate to new hosts. Despite its many practical bene ts, mobile agent technology results in signi cant new security threats frommalicious agents and hosts. The primary added complication is that, as an agent traverses multiple hosts that are trusted to di erent degrees, its state can change in ways that adversely impact its functionality. In this paper, we investigate these new threats and develop a set of achievable security requirements for mobile agent systems.