A Solution to Open Standard of PKI

Qi He	Katia P. Sycara	Zhongmin Su
The Robotics Institute	The Robotics Institute	Dept. of CS and Telecommunications
Carnegie Mellon University	Carnegie Mellon University	University of Missouri-Kansas City
Pittsburgh, PA. 15213	Pittsburgh, PA. 15213	Kansas, MO 64110, USA
qihe@cs.cmu.edu	katia@cs.cmu.edu	zsu@cstp.umkc.edu

Wed Feb 11 00:37:40 EST 1998

Abstract:

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is fundamental for many security applications on the network. However, there are so many different kinds of PKI at current stage and they are not compatible. To solve the problem, we propose to implement the authority of authentication verification service systems as personal autonomous software agents, called security agents. In this paper, we introduce its concept and architecture, as well as its communication language, which is needed for public key management and secure communications among security agents and application agents.

Keywords:

security, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), authentication, agent architecture, KQML, interoperability.

• Introduction
• Security Agent
  • Software Agent and KQML
  • The Idea of Security Agent
  • 3-level Module for Security Agent
  • Function Modules and Architecture
• Extensions to KQML
  • New Parameters
  • New Performatives
• Conclusion
• References
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