Author:
Khaled E. A. Negm
Affiliation:
Etisalat College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates
Keyword(s):
Secure Mobile Transactions, Mobile Agent Protection, Business to Business Secure Transaction.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authentication
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Cryptography
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e-Payment
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Integrating Security in Protocols
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Internet Technology
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Intrusion Detection and Response
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Obstacles
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Secure Web Services
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Sensor Networks
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Society, e-Business and e-Government
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Web Information Systems and Technologies
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Web Security and Privacy
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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