Abstract
The core competencies that a mobile agent possesses are free-roaming between different environment, and autonomous environment detection and adaptation while executing the tasks that are assigned by the users. Because of these competencies, the concept of mobile agent is widely used in many different fields, such as Internet business, wireless communication, and information security technologies and etc. In 1983, Akl and Taylor [1] suggested the concept of superkey to resolve the key management issues faced by the mobile agent. Later in 1998, Volker and Mehrdad [2] proposed a hierarchical mobile agent model for access control. The proposed paper would be based upon the studies of superkey and a hierarchical mobile agent model with addition of elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC). ECC enhances the mobile agent model, because of shorter key length and higher efficiency on encryption and decryption. All the related works would be presented in Section 2. After the background of our proposal is well described, we would aim to resolve the key management issue created by Volker and Mehrdad’s model. Time-bound key management is considered to be a good solution, because it can make the key management in the existing mobile agent model more convenient by distributing the keys that can only be used in a limited period of time.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Akl, S.G., Taylor, P.D.: Cryptographic solution to a problem of access control in a hierarchy. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 1(3), 239–248 (1983)
Volker, R., Mehrdad, J.S.: Access control and key management for mobile agents. Computer Graphics 22(4), 457–461 (1998)
Karmouch, A.: Mobile Software Agents for Telecommunications, Guest Editorial. IEEE Communications Magazine 36(7), 24–25 (1998)
Lin, I.C., Ou, H.H., Hwang, M.S.: Efficient access control and key management schemes for mobile agents. Computer Standards & Interfaces 26(5), 423–433 (2004)
Hohl, F.: A model of attacks malicious hosts against mobile agents. In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Mobile Object Systems: Secure Internet Mobile Computations, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 105–120 (1998)
Lange, D.B., Oshima, M.: Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents with Aglets. Addison-Wesley Press, Massachusetts (1998)
Miller, V.S.: Use of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography. In: Williams, H.C. (ed.) CRYPTO 1985. LNCS, vol. 218, pp. 417–426. Springer, Heidelberg (1986)
Koblitz, N.: Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems. Mathematics of Computation 48(177), 203–209 (1987)
Aydin, M.A., Aydin, G.Z.: A Survey of Elliptic Curve Cryptography 6(2), 211–221 (2006)
Huang, K.H., Chung, Y.F., Liu, C.H., Lai, F., Chen, T.S.: Efficient migration for mobile computing in distributed networks,Computer Standards & Interfaces (2007) (in press)
Shieh, C.W.: An Efficient Design Of Elliptic Curve Cryptography Processor, Master’s Thesis, Tatung University, Taipei (2006)
Wu, S.T.: Authentication and Group Secure Communications Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Doctoral Dissertation, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei (2005)
Guan, D.J., Jen, L.h.: Study and Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem, Master’s Thesis, National Sun Yat-sen University of Technology, Kaohsiung (2005)
Chien, H.Y.: Efficient Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment Scheme. IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Eng. 16(10), 1301–1304 (2004)
Bertino, E., Shang, N., Wagstaff, S.S.: An Efficient Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Management Scheme for Secure Broadcasting. IEEE Trans. Actions on Dependable and Secure Computing 5(2), 65–70 (2008)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Chung, YF., Chen, TS., Ho, CC., Yeh, YH., Ko, HC. (2009). Hierarchical Time-Bound Key Management for Mobile Agents. In: Hua, A., Chang, SL. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03095-6_25
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03095-6_25
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-03094-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-03095-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)