Mobile Code and Security
Song Fu and Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University
A Survey of Mobile Code Systems
A System Structure for Code Mobility
Taxonomy of Code Mobility Mechanisms
Survey of Representative Systems
Research Challenges of Mobile Agent Security
Secure Agent Communication and Navigation
Secure Control of Cloned Agents
Privilege Delegation and Agent Authorization
Cryptographic Protection of Mobile Agents
INTRODUCTION
Mobile code, as its name implies, refers to programs that function as they are transferred from one machine to the other. Code mobility opens up vast opportunities for the development of distributed applications and it has been widely exploited. For example, script programs in ActiveX or Javascript are mobile codes that are widely used to realize dynamic and interactive Web pages. One of the most practical uses of such mobile codes is validating online forms. That is, a Javascript code embedded in hypertext markup language (HTML) form pages can help check what a user enters into a form, ...
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