Quantum Cryptography for Secure Wireless Communication Networks

Chen, Siguang, Wu +1 more

Priyanka Bhatia, Ronak Sumbaly

Data that is transient over an unsecured wireless network is always susceptible to being intercepted by anyone within the range of the wireless signal.Hence providing secure communication to keep the user's information and devices safe when connected wirelessly has become one of the major concerns.Quantum cryptography provides a solution towards absolute communication security over the network by encoding information as polarized photons, which can be sent through the air.This paper explores on the aspect of application of quantum cryptography in wireless networks.In this paper we present a methodology for integrating quantum cryptography and security of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks in terms of distribution of the encryption keys.

Molly Vinu, Lavanya Krishnasamy

Hassan Falah Fakhruldeen, Rana Abbas Al-Kaabi, Feryal Ibrahim Jabbar +2 more

Post quantum is a general name to all the techniques which are safe against the quantum computer attack. The wireless network is one of the most important means of communication. Wireless network security is a top priority. Wireless networks use conventional cryptography, which has various flaws, whereas quantum cryptography claims to be completely secure. It wasn't long after quantum computers became operational that people began to think about new ways to secure electronic communications. After considering all of the weaknesses in conventional cryptosystems, individuals began to look for new ways to secure electronic communications. Traditional cryptography has many problems, but quantum cryptography addresses nearly all of them.

A. Porzio

Xu Guang Huang, Shirantha Wijesekera, Dharmendra Kumar Sharma

Wireless networks have become one of the most widely used communication systems in the world. However, providing secure communication for wireless networks has become one of the prime concerns. Quantum cryptography, namely Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), offers the promise of unconditional security. In our paper, we shall extend our previous research work to a new method of integrating quantum cryptography for key distribution in 802.11 wireless networks. Our contributions, based on our previous results [1], are as follows: (1) We shall show how QKD can be used in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks to securely distribute the keys. (2) We shall introduce a method that take the advantage of mutual authentication features offered by some EAP variants of 802.1X Port-Based Network Access Control. (3) Finally, we present a new code called Quantum Message Integrity Code (Q-MIC) which provides mutual authentication between the two communication parties and its implementation