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<dl><dd>Thesis advisor(s): Dennis M. Volpano</dd>
<dd>"March 1998."</dd>
<dd>Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86)</dd>
<dd>For many years, people have talked about the advantages of programs that can roam networks and provide services for a client. The programs, called agents, have many military applications as well. Among them, for instance, is data mining, where an agent is dispatched to find information for a client. There are security risks associated with agents. For instance, in the data mining example, a client must be able to trust the information returned. If a trusted node in a network can be spoofed, then an untrusted node can easily corrupt the results of the mining operation. This thesis presents a protocol to guard against this sort of attack. The protocol assumes that every trusted host knows all other trusted hosts. Though unrealistic for some commercial applications, it seems like a reasonable assumption for military applications</dd>
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<dd>US Navy (USN) author</dd>
<dd>dk/dk cc:9116 8/18/98</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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Virden, Roy John.</div>
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