loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04)
Analysis of a Free Roaming Agent Result-Truncation Defense Scheme
San Diego, California
July 06-July 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2098-7
Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research
Jose A. Onieva, University of Malaga
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga
Mobile agents play an important role in electronic commerce. Security in free-roaming agents is especially hard to achieve when the mobile code is executed in hosts that may behave maliciously. Some schemes have been proposed to protect agent data (or computation results). However, a known vulnerability of these techniques is the truncation attack where two visited hosts (or one revisited host) can collude to discard the partial results collected between their respective visits. Cheng and Wei proposed a scheme in ICICS?02 to defense against the truncation of computation results of free-roaming agents [1]. Cheng-Wei scheme is effective against such an attack in most cases. However, we demonstrate that it still suffers from the truncation attack when a special loop is established on the path of a free-roaming agent. We further propose two amendments to Cheng-Wei scheme to avoid such an attack.
Index Terms:
secure electronic commerce, mobile agent, cryptographic protocol
Citation:
Jianying Zhou, Jose A. Onieva, Javier Lopez, "Analysis of a Free Roaming Agent Result-Truncation Defense Scheme," cec, pp.221-226, 2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04), 2004
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.