Publication Information
V. Gunupudi, S. R. Tate, and K. Xu. Experimental Evaluation of Security Protocols in SAgent, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments (PSACE), 2006, pp. 60-74. Security&CryptographyConference
Abstract
In this paper we report results of experimental exploration of two software methods for protecting the privacy and security of mobile agents while they are operating on untrusted remote hosts. The two methods include a protocol due to Algesheimer, Cachin, Camenisch, and Karjoth (the ACCK protocol) and a protocol due to Tate and Xu (the TX protocol). These protocol implementations are distributed as standard “security providers” in our SAgent security framework, and this paper examines the efficiency of these protocols and explores the trade-off between security and efficiency that is achieved as the different parameters are varied. We believe this is the first experimental testing of these powerful agent protection techniques, and our experimental results show that for simple but useful applications, these techniques provide strong and practical protection for mobile agents.