Security in mobile agent system: Problems and approaches

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-28

  Yang, Kun ^a   Guo, Xin ^a   Liu, Dayou ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bi directional security mechanism; Layered security mechanism; Mobile agents; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042282155     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/506128.506131     Document Type: Article

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