01165nas a2200205 4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260000900043653001800052653001200070653002600082653001300108100001900121700001700140700002100157245005600178300001000234490000600244520070900250 2002 d c200210aMobile agents10aprivacy10asecure transportation10asecurity1 aIuon-Chang Lin1 aHsia-Hung Ou1 aMin-Shiang Hwang00aTwo Secure Transportation Schemes for Mobile Agents a87-970 v83 a

Mobile agents are a new emerging popular research topic. Nowadays, the mobile agents are widely spread and implemented on the Internet. Application areas of mobile agents include electronic commerce, electronic marketing, enterprise information systems, etc. Since all the information about a mobile agent is transported over the Internet, the security policies become very important. However, the transportation security is usually neglected. In this paper, we propose two secure transportation schemes for mobile agents. They can prevent all possible attacks during the process of transporting agents. Furthermore, users can choose the best transportation scheme according to the system's scale.