Communication Security Research Based on Mobile Agent System

In e-commerce system based on mobile agent, mobile agent can provide very flexible approach for information gathering on prices and merchandises available from the hosts they visit. Mobile agent is being increasingly used to automate the negotiation process between buyer and seller. However, there exist many security issues that need to be addressed. Security issues of mobile agent system consist of protecting the agent platform, protecting the mobile agent and communication security. A new communication security protocol is presented in this paper. It can defend passive attacks and active attacks in communication process. It can also defend denial-of-service authentication attacks.