A Secure Communication Model for Voting Application Using Multiple Mobile Agents

Communicating with confidential data requires special attention in a Mobile Agents environment, especially when the other hosts must be prevented from eavesdropping the communication. We propose a communication model for secured communication between the agents belonging to different entities for a web based application like voting involving multiple agents. We have used BRAHMS agent modeling, simulation and execution environment for the purpose. Data confidentiality is ensured using our on the fly EncryptionDecryption sequence using ElGamal system. We also explain how the homomorphic property of ElGamal scheme can be integrated with our model. Our minimal simulation results using BRAHMS give a faithful picture of the state of the agents as they move around the different servers and exchange data with other agents.