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Design & Implementation of Secure Mobile Agent Gateway  

Park, Jae-Kyoung ((주)퓨쳐시스템 정보통신연구소)
Won, Yoo-Hun (홍익대학교 전산학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.8, no.2, 2002 , pp. 240-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the course of Internet proliferation, many network-related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. The use of Internet-based technologies in private networks has further fuelled the demand for network-based applications. The most promising among the new paradigms is use of mobile agents. The mobile agent is capable of migrating autonomously from node to node in the network, to perform some computation on behalf of the user. The mobile agent paradigm is attractive alternative to traditional client-server programming for a significant class of network-centric applications. It also however, suffers from a major drawback, namely, the potential for malicious attacks, abuse of resources pilfering of information, and other security issues. These issues are significantly hampering the acceptance of the mobile-agent paradigm. This paper describe the design & implementation of secure mobile agent gateway that split and merge the agent cede with security policy database. This mechanism will promote the security in mobile agent systems and mobile agent itself.
Keywords
Security; Mobile Agent; MAG; VPN;
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