Performance Evaluation of Data Integrity Mechanisms for Mobile Agents

With the growing popularity of e-commerce applications that use software agents, the protection of mobile agent data has become imperative. To that end, the performance of four methods that protect the data integrity of mobile agents is evaluated. The methods investigated include existing approaches known as the Partial Result Authentication Codes, Hash Chaining, and Set Authentication Code methods, and a technique of our own design, called the Modified Set Authentication Code method, which addresses the limitations of the Set Authentication Code method. The experiments were run using the DADS agent system (developed at the Network Research Laboratory at UNT), for which a Data Integrity Module was designed. The experimental results show that our Modified Set Authentication Code technique performed comparably to the Set Authentication Code method.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2003

Author dc:creator

• Gunupudi, Vandana

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tate, Stephen R.
• Mikler, Armin R.
• Brazile, Robert

• Mobile agents (Computer software)
• Computer security.
• mobile agents
• Internet security
• data integrity
• DADS agent system

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Gunupudi, Vandana
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 54438716
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4366/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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