Secure Information Gathering Agent for Internet Trading

Abstract

With the proliferation of commercial information on the Internet, intelligent agent becomes an effective implement to collect information for conducting trading. However, great security threats also exist under this scenario. Since agent will be executed by the host, it seems inevitable to expose its codes and data to host’s attacks. In this paper, we propose a security system to protect information gathering agent from malicious hosts. The encryption technique and detection object will be taken to sense any illegal manipulation to the agent body. Distributed login data base (LDB) is introduced to assure any destructor will be easily dug out. Therefore, Internet trading under the framework of this system enable agent to conduct commercial information gathering among hosts freely and securely.