RE: [jade-develop] making communication "safe"


Subject: RE: [jade-develop] making communication "safe"
From: Vitaglione Giosue' (Giosue.Vitaglione@TILAB.COM)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 18:04:53 MET DST


Hi Felix,
with the new JADE Security Plug-in
you can define a security policy so that:

 - agent 'A' can send a message to agent 'B',

 - and agent 'C' (or any other) is not allowed
    to send messages to agent 'B'.

Stay tuned.
The plug-in will be released shortly.

Cheers,
Giosuč

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Schmid [mailto:fsc.tech@spree.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: jade-develop@sharon.cselt.it
> Subject: [jade-develop] making communication "safe"
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> a little question for the group:
>
> SUpposed I have an agent that shuts itself down whgen it receives an
> ACLMessage of performative REQUEST with
> content 'shutdown'.
>
> How can I prevent that if any un-authorized agent sends this
> message the
> agent shuts down?
> Of course I could verify the sender adress, but this is easy
> to manipulate,
> e.g. by using the DummyAgent so send the message.
>
>
> cheers,
> felix
>
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