An Agent-Based Secure E-Commerce Environment with Distributed Authentication and Authorization Services

摘要

This paper describes an agent-based secure E-Commerce environment with distributed authentication and authorization services. Previous researches about security issues in agent-mediated E-commerce do not solve the problems of deals with strangers. Thus we merge role based access control (RBAC) concept for adapting the certificates to different business models or new content-based network. Several types of agent delegation mechanism based on our role certificates and some considerations about how to achieve agent trust management with policies both in logics and practice are presented. Finally, We will demonstrate a delegation scenario on FIPA OS system by using agent communication language (ACL) and content language (CL) encoded by XML and XML/RDF.