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IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)

Enhancing IEEE 802.11i Standard using Quantum Cryptograp

Michael Gonzales, Paul Duncan, Kerssy Fermin, Roshad A. Guerrier, Abdelrahman Elleithy

Published Nov 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Most of our social activities, financial transactions, and other sensitive activities take place online. These transactions are subject to the risk of being intercepted by malicious individuals or groups. The channels that carry this information use a set of specifications called 802.11 and 802.11x standards, created by IEEE for WLAN technologies. Unfortunately, these standards are not the most secure and use the WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol which is not well designed and does not hold up to today's methods of network penetration. In this paper we discuss the application of quantum cryptography as a way of creating encryption keys for wireless and mobile environments, which results in a secure solution to the weaknesses of the IEEE 802.11 standards and WEP protocol.

DOI
10.1109/uemcon.2018.8796696

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Most of our social activities, financial transactions, and other sensitive activities take place online. These transactions are subject to the risk of being intercepted by malicious individuals or groups. The channels that carry this information use a set of specifications called 802.11 and 802.11x standards, created by IEEE for WLAN technologies. Unfortunately, these standards are not the most secure and use the WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol which is not well designed and does not hold up to today's methods of network penetration. In this paper we discuss the application of quantum cryptography as a way of creating encryption keys for wireless and mobile environments, which results in a secure solution to the weaknesses of the IEEE 802.11 standards and WEP protocol.
Security of data is one of the most important factors to take into account while elaborating any information system, especially when the information is transmitted over a wireless network like one of a company, a factory, a campus, or more importantly a battlefield. In those cases information becomes much more sensitive and must be secured via encryption algorithm. Whether the encryption is done using symmetric or asymmetric algorithm we have to deal with the main problem of key distribution. Quantum mechanics provide a new paradigm that can address effectively the classical problem of key distribution. The main idea of this work is about how to integrate the QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) in the IEEE 802.11i standard to improve the security of data transmitted over a wireless network, by enhancing the encryption key distribution phase.
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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is an ingenious application of quantum mechanics in information field. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is gaining popularity as they are fast, cost effective, flexible and easy to use. They are, however, faced with some serious security challenges and the choice of security protocol is a critical issue for IT. In this paper, it analyzes the IEEE 802.11i wireless networking amendment with respect to data confidentiality, integrity, mutual authentication and availability. It provides novel high-performance quantum cryptography architectures in IEEE 802.11 WLAN by establishing a quantum key over a long distance. The supplicant sends qubits to the authenticator server by sharing EPR. Compared with the classical network architecture, it is proved in theory that an eavesdropper (Eve) invariably introduces errors within communication network if it wants to gain useful information. Quantum cryptography guarantees the security of the network.
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Wireless technology is rapidly evolving, and is playing an important role in the lives of people throughout the world. Due to the nature of open guide medium of wireless communications, it is possible for an adversary to snoop on confidential communications or modify them to gain access to the wireless networks more easily than with wired networks, which has been drawing great attentions. In this paper, we focus on improving the security of IEEE 802.11 networks through secure key distribution using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) which offer unconditional security between two communication parties. In our previous research work, we have demonstrated a novel protocol using quantum cryptography for secure key distribution in IEEE 802.11 networks. In our current paper, we analysis the experimental results we obtained in our previous research works, which will be focusing on the reconciliation phase of this protocol.