An Autonomous Attestation Token to Secure Mobile Agents in Disaster Response

Daniel Hein; Ronald Toegl

Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems. First International ICST Conference, MobiSec 2009, Turin, Italy, June 3-5, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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An Autonomous Attestation Token to Secure Mobile Agents in Disaster Response

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_5,
    author={Daniel Hein and Ronald Toegl},
    title={An Autonomous Attestation Token to Secure Mobile Agents in Disaster Response},
    proceedings={Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems. First International ICST Conference, MobiSec 2009, Turin, Italy, June 3-5, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBISEC},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={Disaster Response Mobile Agents Trusted Computing Attestation},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_5}
}

Daniel Hein
Ronald Toegl
Year: 2012
An Autonomous Attestation Token to Secure Mobile Agents in Disaster Response
MOBISEC
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_5

Daniel Hein¹^,*, Ronald Toegl¹^,*

1: Graz University of Technology

*Contact email: dhein@iaik.tugraz.at, rtoegl@iaik.tugraz.at

Abstract

Modern communication and computing devices have the potential to increase the efficiency of disaster response. Mobile agents are a decentralized and flexible technology to leverage this potential. While mobile agent platforms suffer from a greater variety of security risks than the classic client-server approach, Trusted Computing is capable of alleviating these problems. Unfortunately, , a core concept of Trusted Computing, requires a powerful networked entity to perform trust decisions. The existence and availability of such a service in a disaster response scenario cannot be relied upon.

Keywords: Disaster Response Mobile Agents Trusted Computing Attestation

Published: 2012-05-17

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04434-2_5