Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks

Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks

This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching an agent multiple times to a remote host, thus making it reexecute part of its itinerary. Current proposals aiming to address this problem are based on storing agent identifiers, or trip markers, inside agent platforms, so...

Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing

Mobile code systems provide a exible and powerful platform to build distributed applications in an Internet scale, but they rise strong requirements from the security point of view. Security issues include authentication of the di erent remote parties involved and protection of the execution environments from malicious agents. Nonetheless, the most di cult task is to protect roaming agents from...

Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts

Protecting databases from inference attacks

l This work was supported under Maryland Procurement 05ce Contract No. h4DA904-94-C-6120. prise. Using available secure database management systems, an enterprise has the ability to provide various degrees of protection for the data.This protection can range from access lists to label-based protection, where security labels are assigned to the data based on its sensitivity. Access to this data ...

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