Session:

Intelligent Mobile Agents in Peer -to- Peer Networks
Sunday, February 29, 2004, 11.00 – 11.20

Session Chair:
Vice Chair:

Jorge Marx-Gomez
Daniel Lübke

Paper Title:

Usage of OpenPGP with Mobile Agents in Peer -to- Peer Networks

Author(s):

D. Lübke, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
J. Marx-Gomez, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany

Abstract:

Much research effort has been put into the development of mobile agent systems based on peer-to-peer network technology. However, not a very strong focus has yet been on the security of these systems. Only rudimentary security measures have been implemented which are not suited for developing open and anonymous networks which are very popular today, like for example Kazaa. This paper proposes the use of the OpenPGP standard for encryption and digital signatures allowing much more flexibility and fine grained user control of the security settings.

Keywords: OpenPGP, Mobile Agent, Encryption, Signature, Peer-to-Peer Network, X.509