An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking

Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data, and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. In such scenario there are some security issues that must be considered. In particular, this paper deals with the protection of mobile agents against manipula...

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Authors: Esparza, O, Munoz, JL, Tomas-Buliart, J, Soriano, M
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Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
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Keyword:mobile agent security
malicious hosts
software watermarking
host revocation
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spelling An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarkingEsparza, OMunoz, JLTomas-Buliart, JSoriano, Mmobile agent securitymalicious hostssoftware watermarkinghost revocationMobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data, and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. In such scenario there are some security issues that must be considered. In particular, this paper deals with the protection of mobile agents against manipulation attacks performed by the host, which is one of the main security issues to solve in mobile agent systems. This paper introduces an infrastructure for mobile agent watermarking (MAW). MAW is a lightweight approach that can efficiently detect manipulation attacks performed by potentially malicious hosts that might seek to subvert the normal agent operation. MAW is the first proposal in the literature that adapts software watermarks to verify the execution integrity of an agent. The second contribution of this paper is a technique to punish a malicious host that performed a manipulation attack by using a trusted third party (TTP) called host revocation authority (HoRA). A proof-of-concept has also been developed and we present some performance evaluation results that demonstrate the usability of the proposed mechanisms. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Hindawi Limited2011info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://cttc.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=1795WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTINGISSN: 15308677ISSNe: 15308669reponame:r-CTTC. Repositorio Institucional Producción Científica del Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)instname:Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:cttc.fundanetsuite.com:p17952026-06-17T11:44:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
title An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
spellingShingle An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
Esparza, O
mobile agent security
malicious hosts
software watermarking
host revocation
title_short An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
title_full An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
title_fullStr An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
title_full_unstemmed An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
title_sort An infrastructure for detecting and punishing malicious hosts using mobile agent watermarking
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Esparza, O
Munoz, JL
Tomas-Buliart, J
Soriano, M
author Esparza, O
author_facet Esparza, O
Munoz, JL
Tomas-Buliart, J
Soriano, M
author_role author
author2 Munoz, JL
Tomas-Buliart, J
Soriano, M
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv mobile agent security
malicious hosts
software watermarking
host revocation
topic mobile agent security
malicious hosts
software watermarking
host revocation
description Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data, and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. In such scenario there are some security issues that must be considered. In particular, this paper deals with the protection of mobile agents against manipulation attacks performed by the host, which is one of the main security issues to solve in mobile agent systems. This paper introduces an infrastructure for mobile agent watermarking (MAW). MAW is a lightweight approach that can efficiently detect manipulation attacks performed by potentially malicious hosts that might seek to subvert the normal agent operation. MAW is the first proposal in the literature that adapts software watermarks to verify the execution integrity of an agent. The second contribution of this paper is a technique to punish a malicious host that performed a manipulation attack by using a trusted third party (TTP) called host revocation authority (HoRA). A proof-of-concept has also been developed and we present some performance evaluation results that demonstrate the usability of the proposed mechanisms. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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