Abstract：The characteristics of mobile agents make them ideal for electronic commerce applications in open networks.Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems.In this paper,we analyze the effective route protection based on mobile agents given by Domingo J.and point that the protocol has security threat:it is not against collusion of malicious hosts.After that,using hash function,a secure itinerary protection of mobile agents based on Merkle trees is presented.Its and computational cost are discussed in detail.The results show that our method not only satisfies all security properties but also keeps the characters of the protocol existed.Finally,Our idea is extended to protect flexible itineraries too.
柳毅;姜正涛;王育民. 基于Merkle树的安全移动代理路由协议及其推广[J]. 电子学报, 2005, 33(7): 1250-1253.
LIU Yi;JIANG Zheng-tao;WANG Yu-min. Mobile Agent Route Protection Based on Merkle Trees and Its Extension. Chinese Journal of Electronics, 2005, 33(7): 1250-1253.
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