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Secure Mobile Agent-Based Merchant Brokering in Distributed Marketplaces

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1882))

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Cooperating merchants establish a distributed marketplace under the auspices of an independent market authority. Each merchant’s server is equipped with a trusted device, a smart card for example, provided by the market authority. The market authority plays the role of a trusted third party for the customer as well as for the merchants. This paper describes protocols that prevent the malicious alteration of the data collected by visiting mobile agents roaming through the marketplace without being detectable by subsequent servers or by the owner of the agent upon its return. Another protocol makes the trusted device a secure execution platform for routines provided by the agent owner.

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  1. IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory,  

    Günter Karjoth

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  1. Institute for Security Technology Studies Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA

    David Kotz

  2. ETH Zürich, Inst. for Pervasive Computing, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Friedemann Mattern

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Karjoth, G. (2000). Secure Mobile Agent-Based Merchant Brokering in Distributed Marketplaces. In: Kotz, D., Mattern, F. (eds) Agent Systems, Mobile Agents, and Applications. ASA MA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45347-5_5

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