A robust framework for protecting computation results of mobile agents

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-31

  Khan, Abid ^a   Niu, Xiamu ^a   Yong, Zhang ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Data integrity; Digital signature; Forward integrity; Mobile agent security; Non repudiation; Truncation resilience; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SECURITY OF DATA; VERIFICATION;

DATA INTEGRITY; DIGITAL SIGNATURE; FORWARD INTEGRITY; MOBILE AGENT SECURITY; NON-REPUDIATION; TRUNCATION RESILIENCE;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 41549112489     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2008.24.31     Document Type: Article

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