4. Secure agent execution

• Protection domains for agents

  • Thread groups in Java
  • Using the thread-group ID to identify the agent
  • The Domain Registry
  • Class loading in Java [Lindholm & Yellin 1996]
  • Class loader-based namespace isolation
  • One class loader per agent (domain)

• On-demand, secure code transfer

  • authenticated, encrypted communication with code base

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