Selected Security Aspects of Agent-based Computing

Abstract—The paper presents selected security aspects related to confidentiality, privacy, trust and authenticity issues of a distributed, agent-based computing. Particular attention has been paid to authenticity of and trust in migrating mobile agents executables, agent’s trust in runtime environment, inter agent communication and security of agent’s payload. Selected attack vectors against agent-based computing were described and risk mitigation methods and strategies were proposed and discussed based on presented cryptography measures. In summary ex-pected effectiveness of proposed countermeasures was described. I