A Design of local resource access control for mobile agent in PDA

Summary Personal Device Assistance (PDA) devices are becoming popular, and some such devices have extended their capability to run a mobile agent platform. This paper describes a new security mechanism for mobile agent platforms running on PDAs. Our security mechanism is based on PDAgentSecurityManager built upon a Java virtual machine environment and provides dynamic authentication and flexible access control. Our security mechanism was implemented and empirically evaluated using an example application. Key words: mobile agent, security, access control In the project described in this paper, we consider a scenario where a large number of users carry a PD