Secure Migration of Mobile Agents based on Distributed Trust

Integrity of mobile agents in open environments in which no guarantees can be provided on the integrity of the hosts on which they run, is an open challenge. This paper presents a method with which tampering can be detected. This method is based on the notion of distributed trust; trust distributed over the hosts involved.

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