Secure groups communication for mobile agents based on public key infrastructure

• Published in: 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (IEEE Cat. No.03EX732) Vol. 3; pp. 1023 - 1027 Vol.3
• Main Authors: Mazlan, M.A., Samsudin, A., Budiarto, R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2003
• Subjects: Application software; Communication system security; Computer science; Cryptographic protocols; Elliptic curve cryptography; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Object oriented modeling; Public key; Public key cryptography
• ISBN: 0780381149; 9780780381148
• DOI: 10.1109/APCC.2003.1274253

The use of mobile agents based computing in this emerging world of electronic transaction is becoming increasingly prevalent due to the enormous benefits and services that can be derived from it. They are good for distributed applications and hence an excellent paradigm when group communications are involved. Secure group communication is a significant research area prompted by the growing popularity of many types group based cryptography and collaborative application. In this paper, we focus on secure group communication based on mobile agents. In doing so, we use elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) as key exchange protocol, XOR operation and hash function to achieve provable secure and efficient management for group communication.