Mobile Agents

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found only a single technique—agent replication—that not only detects an

attack but can also recover the error. The next column distinguishes between

techniques that address an agent’s code or agent’s data. Here, we can find

techniques that address the agent as a whole, including its code and data.

In the last few years, security issues of mobile agents have been a rapidly

evolving area of research. Although many of the problems we introduced

in Section 5.2 can be solved by using state-of-the-art cryptographic proto-

cols already known from research in distributed systems, some problems

are unique to mobile code and even a few problems are singular for mobile

agents.We have to concede that our overview of countermeasures ...