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Agent Security Methodology and Architecture

The establishment of agent-based PKI makes it technically feasible for agents (also for non-agent-based applications) to conduct security operations based on public key cryptosystem rather than radically change paradigm of the basic methodology of cryptology. In this section, however, we give a brief summary of the methodology[1].





Qi He
Wed Jan 28 06:23:23 EST 1998