Mobile Agent Data Integrity Using Multi-Agent Architecture

摘要

Mobile agents represent an alternative way of designing and implementing distributed systems. Security issues for mobile agents continue to produce research interest, particularly in developing mechanisms that guarantee protection of agent data and agent computations in the presence of malicious hosts. By integrating multi-agent architecture into the mobile agent paradigm, data protection can be better addressed in terms of the classical problems of insertion, deletion, and alteration. We propose a method to prevent data integrity attacks by separating the task of agent data Computation from agent data collection and assigning these roles to separate classes of cooperating agents.