Chapter
5
Mobile Agent Security
This chapter focuses on a very important part of mobile agent research—
security. Many research groups worldwide have focused on security aspects
of mobile agents and published a large number of papers. In fact, most
research in the area of mobile agents was done in security issues. However,
the actual state-of-the-art technology has not yet reached a level that could
provide an applicable set of best practices with industrial strength. We really
talk about basic research and miss out, in most cases, on a complete frame-
work of integrated concepts and tools. We cannot provide such an integrated
framework in this book; our goal is to provide an overview of the cur-
rent state-of-the-ar t technology as it relates to our ...