CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop

Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language

Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin, and James Mayfield

October 23, 1995

Agents, in their various manifestations as filter agents, personal agents, softbots, or knowbots, have become an important topic and a primary research area in academia and industry. These agents, to interoperate successfully and share their knowledge, need a common interface standard. KQML is a message protocol and format for software agents to communicate with each other. In this paper, we discuss the security features that a KQML user would expect and an architecture to satisfy those expectations. The proposed architecture is based on cryptographic techniques. It would allow agents to verify other agents' identities, detect integrity violations in messages, protect confidential data, ensure non-repudiation of message origin, and take countermeasures against cipher attacks.

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Tags: agent, ai, kqml, protocol, security

Type: InProceedings

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