MotorHome: A Secure and Portable Execution Environment for Mobile Agent
Date Issued
2004
Date
2004
Author(s)
Lee, Po-Chi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Mobile Agent is an object which can roam over the network
freely to accomplish its jobs. Mobile Agent is so brilliant that can be applied in E-commerce, distributed system and web service to create customized application easily. However, because of the hostile network environment, user of Mobile Agent will concern about that Mobile Agent may be brainwash to break the execution integrity or peek the private information of Mobile Agent. In addition, host owner worry about that incoming agent may abuse his resource to crash the whole system, or leak out the host private data. These distrusts obstruct the development about Mobile Agent and the potential success of Mobile Agent.
Current security schemes of Mobile Agent is not enough to convince the users trusting the Mobile Agent. In this thesis, we propose the MotorHome, a portable execution environment, which allows Mobile Agent to access system resources directly. The MotorHoem system integrate the virtual machine monitor to divide the system hardware resources into two parts, one is for host and the other
is shared for Mobile Agent; the portable platform with virtual devices and a specific OS; authentication and tamper detection mechanisms. In this thesis, we propose the system concept and the system implementation guideline, clearly discussing about the implementation issues.
Subjects
竄改預防
可移動執行環境
行動式代理人安全機制
虛擬機器監控器
Virtual Machine Monitor
Information Security
Mobile Agent Security
Portable Execution Environment
Tamper Resistent
Type
other