1. Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications
- Author
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Carles Garrigues, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Joan Borrell, Sergi Robles, Generalitat de Catalunya, and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
- Subjects
Engineering ,llenguatge d'especificació ,Computer software -- Development ,Speedup ,arquitectura del software ,Process (engineering) ,agents mòbils ,Mobile computing ,Reuse ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,ayuda al desarrollo de aplicaciones ,Specification language ,Architecture ,aided application development ,Software -- Desarrollo ,business.industry ,Software architecture ,Cryptographic protocol ,lenguaje de especificación ,Hardware and Architecture ,ajuda al desenvolupament d'aplicacions ,Programari -- Desenvolupament ,Mobile agent ,Mobile agents ,Aided application development ,mobile agents ,sofware architecture ,business ,computer ,Software ,arquitectura del programari ,agentes móviles ,Information Systems ,specification language - Abstract
In this paper, we present a software architecture and a development environment for the implementation of applications based on secure mobile agents. Recent breakthroughs in mobile agent security have unblocked this technology, but there is still one important issue to overcome: the complexity of programming applications using these security solutions. Our proposal aims to facilitate and speed up the process of implementing cryptographic protocols, and to allow the reuse of these protocols for the development of secure mobile agents. As a result, the proposed architecture and development environment promote the use of mobile agent technology for the implementation of secure distributed applications. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., This work is partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the FEDER funds under the Grants TSI2006-03481 SCRISSI , E-AEGIS TSI2007-65406-C03-02 and TSI2007-65406-C03-03 , CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004 ARES . This work has also been funded by the Catalan AGAUR Grant 2009SGR1224
- Published
- 2009