A Pessimistic approach to trust in mobile agent platforms

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 40-48

  Wilhelm, Uwe G ^a   Staamann, Sebastian M ^b   ButtyaÁn, Levente ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Xtradyne Technologies   (Canada)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PRIVACY; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY OF DATA;

MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGIES;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0034272456     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4236.877485     Document Type: Article

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