Our mobile-agent system, D’Agents (
http://www.cs. dartmouth.edu/~agent/), assigns an RSA public/private key pair to each machine and agent owner. When the agent leaves its home machine, it is digitally
signed with the owner’s private key. The destination machine verifies the signature and assigns a set of owner-specific access
permissions to the agent (such as which files it can access), which are then enforced at the user level. Unfortunately, this
straightforward approach is insufficient. We identify three main areas of future work.
This work was funded by AFOSR grant F49620-97-1-0382.