On the Problem of Trust in Mobile Agent Systems

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Wilhelm, Uwe G ^a   Staamann, Sebastian ^a   Buttyán, Levente ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SYSTEMS;

EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL INTERNET; MALICIOUS AGENT; MALICIOUS BEHAVIOR; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; REVERSE PROBLEMS; TAMPERPROOF;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 26844544709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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