A novel mobile agent authentication scheme for multi-host environments using self-certified pairing-based public key cryptosystem

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 5 A, 2011, Pages 2389-2404

  Tsaur, Woei Jiunn ^a   Yeh, Lo Yao ^b  

^a DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent security; Authentication scheme; Proxy signature; Self certified public key cryptosystem

Indexed keywords

AGENT SECURITY; AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION; AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MALICIOUS HOST; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY; MULTIPLE SERVICES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PROXY SIGNATURE; PROXY SIGNATURE SCHEME; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOSYSTEMS; SECURITY ISSUES; SELF-CERTIFIED; SELFCERTIFIED PUBLIC KEY;

AUTHENTICATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; NETWORK SECURITY; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SCALABILITY;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 79956061021     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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