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中国邮电高校学报：英文版

Security performance analysis and the parameters simulation of quantum virtual private network based on IPSec protocol

Min Nie, Tao Jin, Guang Yong Yang, Sun Ai-Jing, Changxing Pei

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Traditional virtual private networks（ VPNs） are conditional security. In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of user data transmission,a model of quantum VPN based on Internet protocol security（ IPSec）protocol is proposed. By using quantum keys for key distribution and entangled particles for identity authentication in the network,a secure quantum VPN is relized. The important parameters affecting the performance of the VPN was analyzed. The quantitative relationship between the security key generation rate,the quantum bit error rate（ QBER） and the transmission distance was obtained. The factors that affect the system throughput were also analyzed and simulated. Finally,the influence of the quantum noise channel on the entanglement swapping was analyzed. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that,under a limited number of decoy states,with the transmission distance increased from 0 to 112. 5 km,the secure key generation rate was reduced from 5. 63 × 10-3 to 1. 22 × 10-5. When the number of decoy states is fixed,the QBER increases dramatically with the increase of the transmission distance,and the maximum reaches 0. 393. Analysis shows that various factors in communication have a significant impact on system throughput. The generation rate of the effective entanglement photon pairs have decisive effect on the system throughput. Therefore,in the process of quantum VPN communication,various parameters of the system should be properly adjusted to communicate within a safe transmission distance,which can effectively improve the reliability of the quantum communication system.

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Network encryption technology has become an essential factor for organizational security. Virtual Private Network (VPN) or VPN encryption technology is the most popular technique used to prevent unauthorized users access to private network. This technique normally relies on mathematical function in order to generate periodic key. As a result, it may decrease security performance and vulnerable system, if high performance computing make rapid progress to reverse mathematicaln calculation to find out the next secret key pattern.The main contribution of this paper emphasizes on improving VPN performance by adopting quantum keys as a seed value into one-time password technique to encompasses the whole process of authentication, data confidentiality and security key management methodology in order to protect against eavesdroppers during data transmission over insecure network.
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Electric power communication security is an important support for the development of Energy Internet, secure transmission protection of core and sensitive business data is the vital task of electric power telecommunication network. Quantum secret communication systems rely on quantum key distribution (QKD) mechanism. As the core equipment in quantum secret communication system, quantum VPN achieves data encryption and decryption with quantum key to improve the cipher security of traditional VPN, which can effectively enhance network security of communication in Energy Internet. In this paper, the working mechanism of quantum key distribution and quantum VPN (QuVPN) equipment is firstly described for the commercial quantum secret communication system based on polarization modulation. The simulation experiment structure of quantum VPN is designed, and the experimental environment is established by using the practical QKD equipment, quantum VPN and network tester. The most important performance characteristics including throughput, delay and encryption algorithm of quantum VPN are tested and statistically analyzed, and the verification of secure network transmission with quantum key is implemented. The test results can provide some technical reference for extensive application of quantum VPN in power grid production and management informatization business.
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