Research into mobile agent security

The security of mobile agent is a complicated problem, the current researches on this topic are extensive. In this paper, beginning with the work model of Mobile Agent System, the authors discuss the reasons why the security problems were brought out, and explore the present state of research from the two sides of security, attack and prevention. The paper emphasizes that the theoretic research of security should be focused on application and also points out the importance of the research in the future.