@InProceedings{majumdar05securing,
  author =	 {Anirban Majumdar and Clark Thomborson},
  title =	 {Securing Mobile Agents Control Flow using Opaque Predicates},
  booktitle =	 {Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (9th International Conference, KES)},
  year =	 2005,
  volume = 3683,
  pages = {1065-1071},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag Heidelberg},
  editor = {Rajiv Khosla and Robert J. Howlett and Lakhmi C. Jain },
  address = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia},
  section = {OBFUSCATION,SSG},
  abstract = {Mobile agent technology is an evolving paradigm that combines the
inherent characteristics of intelligent agents, namely, adaptability, reactivity and
autonomy with mobility. These characteristics of mobile agents provide an excellent
means of meeting the distributed and heterogeneous requirements for
many electronic commerce applications involving low bandwidth and intermittently
connected networks. However, the lack of security in the form of code
confidentiality renders this paradigm unsuitable for commercial software. In
this paper, we address the problem of mobile agent security by proposing a
novel method of mobile agent obfuscation using the concept of opaque predicates
to prevent adversaries from observing the control flow of agent code. We
discuss about the efficiency of our proposed methodology by demonstrating
that to an adversary, the problem of determining the outcome of such opaque
predicates is often intractable.}, cache = {majumdar05securing.pdf}

}