Mobile agent watermarking (MAW): security properties and attacks revisited

Abstract

Providing integrity of execution is considered as the most challenging problem in Mobile Agent System (MAs). Mobile agent watermarking (MAW) is a technique that attempts to provide integrity of execution to a mobile agent. We discuss the attacks against MAW technique and how the security properties for MAs data integrity are fulfilled. We try to model the behavior of a malicious host by launching a series of passive attacks against mobile agent and then see to what extent the security properties for mobile agent can be achieved. The experimental results suggest that MAW framework can be used to protect the computations results of mobile agents