Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

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. Key words: mobile agents, sofware architecture, aided application development, specification language.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: JSS
• Authors: Carles Garrigues, Sergi Robles, Joan Borrell, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas
• Keywords: Development Environment, JSS 2010, Mobile Agents, Secure Mobile Agents