DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF MOBILE AGENT PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR MANETS

Khaled E. A. Negm

2005

Abstract

In the current research, we present an operation framework and protection mechanism to facilitate secure environment to protect mobile agents against tampering. The system depends on the presence of an authentication authority. The advantage of the proposed system is that security measures is an integral part of the design, thus common security retrofitting problems do not arise. This is due to the presence of AlGamal encryption mechanism to protect its confidential content and any collected data by the agent from the visited host. So that eavesdropping on information from the agent is no longer possible to reveal any confidential information. Also the inherent security constraints within the framework allow the system to operate as an intrusion detection system for any mobile agent environment. The mechanism is tested for most of the well known severe attacks against agents and networked systems. The scheme proved a promising performance that makes it very recommended for the types of transactions that needs highly secure environments, e. g., business to business, stock market updates, and any real time data synchronization.

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E. A. Negm K. (2005). DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF MOBILE AGENT PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR MANETS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 389-396. DOI: 10.5220/0001236403890396


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@conference{webist05,
author={Khaled E. A. Negm},
title={DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF MOBILE AGENT PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR MANETS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={389-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001236403890396},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF MOBILE AGENT PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR MANETS
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - E. A. Negm K.
PY - 2005
SP - 389
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0001236403890396