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

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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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  1. Key distribution protocols with time stamps stop replays of compromised keys. The time stamps have the further advantage of replacing a four step handshake.

  2. Allow Alice and Bob be the two participants in a quantum channel, where Alice is the sender of qubits and Bob is the receiver of qubits. The horizontal polarizations and the vertical polarizations (defined in Sect. 6.2) are required to create or calculate qubits.

  3. QKD uses quantum mechanics to promise safe message through by quantum superposition states (defined in Sects. 4.1, 4.2 and 6.2) [8–11, 17–20, 25–28].

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Naik, R.L., Reddy, P.C. Towards secure quantum key distribution protocol for wireless LANs: a hybrid approach. Quantum Inf Process 14, 4557–4574 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1129-3

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