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A novel method to maintain privacy in mobile agent applications. (English) Zbl 1154.94428

Desmedt, Yvo G. (ed.) et al., Cryptology and network security. 4th international conference, CANS 2005, Xiamen, China, December 14–16, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-30849-0/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3810, 247-260 (2005).
Summary: Two methods to implement privacy in network communication, anonymity and DCSC (data confidentiality and secure computation) are analysed and compared in regard to privacy in mobile agent applications. It is illustrated that privacy through DCSC is more suitable in mobile agent applications. To support this conclusion, privacy is concretely implemented in a bidding mobile agent scheme in this paper. Success of this example demonstrates that privacy can be practically achieved in mobile agent applications through DCSC without compromising the advantage of mobile agent.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1098.94002].

MSC:

94A60 Cryptography
68P25 Data encryption (aspects in computer science)
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