Research on Mobile Agent Security of Application Software in Open Platform

This paper analyzes the security problem and the popular security technology of Mobile Agent system. A new mechanism of Mobile Agent security system in open platform, a three tier protection model, that is code mess up, limited life time of code and data, encryption, associated with CA, used for protecting Mobile Agent from the attacks of malicious hosts is discussed. A method to deal with Mobile Agent in different level management and certification services, used for constructing hosts’ secure environment is also proposed. The security mechanism has been conducted, which shows the mode has taken into effect.