An approach to secure mobile agents

摘要

In this paper securing mobile agents on malicious platform is presented that split into: hardware based solutions and software based solutions. The purpose of the approach is to provide a maintainable software solution that is as robust as hardware solutions. The agent execution is possible if a special peripheral exists. The agent communicates with the visited site through a secure logical interface and generates a cryptographic trace. The cryptographic trace is calculated only on the black segments where the agent interacts with the visited platform. The virtual machine SVM is a software layer installed between the operating system and the agent environment. The method to provide security of agents only with software mechanisms, to reduce costs and maintainable products is provided.