• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2004

In mobile agent environments, migration of an agent occurs continuously due to the mobility of agents. So cascaded delegation can occur among places for delegating the privilege to execute the agent. Because the existing delegation scheme considers only the delegation between two places that participate in migration of an agent, it does not support secure cascaded delegation. In this paper, we propose a cascaded delegation scheme that provides agents with secure cascaded delegation in mobile agent environments. Depending on the trust-relationship among places, the proposed scheme achieves the goal by nesting each delegation token or by nesting only initial token signed by creator of the agent within the signed part of the next immediate delegation token. And we prove that the proposed scheme is secure against the attack of replaying a message and the attack of substituting a delegation token.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1C
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• pp.25-34
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• 2004

In mobile agent environments, cascaded delegations among places occur frequently due to the mobility of agents. Cascaded delegation in mobile agent environments can be defined as the process whereby the delegated place delegates the rights of the delegating place further. The representative study for delegation in mobile agent environments is Berkovits et al.'s study. Their study only defines the messages that is sent between the place executing the agent and the place where the agent migrates. Because their study considers only the delegation between two places which participate in migration of an agent, it is inadequate in the situation that the cascaded delegation is necessary. In other words, the relationships among the messages sent from and to places is necessary. However, their study does not exist the relationships. In this paper, we propose a delegation scheme that provides agents with secure cascaded delegation. The proposed scheme achieves the goal by nesting each delegation token within the signed part of the next immediate delegation token. We prove that the proposed scheme is secure against the attack of replaying a message and of substituting a delegation token.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.2241-2244
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• 2003

이동 에이전트 환경에서는 에이전트의 이동성으로 인하여 에이전트의 이주(migration)가 연속적으로 발생할 수 있다. 이에 따라 에이전트를 실행할 권한을 위임(delegation)하기 위해 플레이스(place)간에 연속위임(cascaded delegation)이 발생할 수 있다. 기존의 연구는 에이전트 이주에 관련한 두 플레이스만을 위임의 대상으로 고려하기 때문에 연속 위임을 위한 기법으로는 부적절하다. 본 연구에서는 이동 에이전트 환경에서 연속 위임을 안전하게 수행하는 연속 위임 구현 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 플레이스간의 신뢰관계에 따라 각 위임토큰(delegation token)을 다음에 생성되는 위임토큰에 내포시킨 후 서명하는 방법과 에이전트의 송신자에 의해 서명된 초기 토큰(initial token)만을 내포시킨 후 서명하는 방법을 나눠서 사용한다. 또한 본 제안 기법이 메시지 재연에 의한 공격과 위임토큰 치환 공격에 안전함을 증명한다.