Integration of quantum cryptography in 802.11 networks

Nguyen, Thi Mai Trang; Sfaxi, M.A.; Ghernaouti-Hélie, Solange

doi:10.1109/ares.2006.75

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“…As a further development, the application of QKD for securing smartphones in a multiuser mobile network has been implemented by harnessing the Tokyo QKD network [206], [511], [515]. The integration of QKD into wireless networks has been analyzed in [516], whereas a QKD system using optical wireless communication links for telephone networks has been studied in [517]. In particular, a commercial QKD-enhanced mobile phone has been developed by QuantumCTek in collaboration with ZTE [518], while China Telecom and QuantumCTek are jointly promoting the development of quantum encrypted phone calls relying on a special SIM card and smartphone app [519].…”

Section: Application Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of Quantum Key Distribution Networks: On the Road to the Qinternet

Cao

Zhao

Qin

et al. 2022

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Section: Application Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of Quantum Key Distribution Networks: On the Road to the Qinternet

Cao

Zhao

Qin

et al. 2022

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

187

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“…The quantum handshake is adopted from [24] and altered to incorporate the proposed HQKDP. As presented in Fig.…”

Section: Integrating Hqkdp With 80211imentioning

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Towards secure quantum key distribution protocol for wireless LANs: a hybrid approach

Naik

Reddy

2015

Quantum Inf Process

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The primary goals of security such as authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation in communication networks can be achieved with secure key distribution. Quantum mechanisms are highly secure means of distributing secret keys as they are unconditionally secure. Quantum key distribution protocols can effectively prevent various attacks in the quantum channel, while classical cryptography is efficient in authentication and verification of secret keys. By combining both quantum cryptography and classical cryptography, security of communications over networks can be leveraged. Hwang, Lee and Li exploited the merits of both cryptographic paradigms for provably secure communications to prevent replay, man-in-the-middle, and passive attacks. In this paper, we propose a new scheme with the combination of quantum cryptography and classical cryptography for 802.11i wireless LANs. Since quantum cryptography is premature in wireless networks, our work is a significant step forward toward securing communications in wireless networks. Our scheme is known as hybrid quantum key distribution protocol. Our analytical results revealed that the proposed scheme is provably secure for wireless networks.

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“…Although WQN has been explored further in the aspects of EPR-pair allocation [3], routing optimization, network architecture construction [4] [10], and so on, the basic issues of the WQN are still EPR-pair distribution and quantum …”

Section: Wireless Quantum Networkmentioning

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Quantum Secret Broadcast for Wireless Quantum Networks

Shang¹,

Du²,

Liu³

2017

IJCNS

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In wireless quantum networks, nodes communicate by means of pre-distribution for entangled pairs and relay path establishment for quantum teleportation. However, simple point-to-point communication seriously restricts the efficiency of quantum communication. Inspired by sharing idea of quantum secret sharing (QSS), which is based on three collaborative nodes with pre-shared GHZ (Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger) states, we propose a quantum secret broadcast scheme to improve network performance. In a cluster network cored on three parties of QSS, three cluster heads with pre-shared GHZ states are senders, while cluster members are receivers. One cluster head encodes secret messages on auxiliary particles by performing certain operations on them with GHZ particles, then three cluster heads measure their own particles and broadcast measurement results honestly. Based on the specific correlation of measurement results and secret messages, all receivers can recover the secret messages. Furthermore, to prevent eavesdropping, cluster heads can update an encoding key periodically. Analysis shows the proposed scheme is more efficient than previous schemes in wireless quantum networks, especially when the number of receivers is larger. Besides, in the proposed scheme, attacks on quantum channel based on GHZ state can be detected, and eavesdroppers cannot recover messages correctly for lack of suitable decoding key.

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Integration of quantum cryptography in 802.11 networks

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

The Evolution of Quantum Key Distribution Networks: On the Road to the Qinternet

The Evolution of Quantum Key Distribution Networks: On the Road to the Qinternet

Towards secure quantum key distribution protocol for wireless LANs: a hybrid approach

Quantum Secret Broadcast for Wireless Quantum Networks

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