Implementation of QKD in 802.11 Networks

It is the fact that 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 this 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, are as follows: (1) showing how QKD can be implemented in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks (2) introducing a novel method that takes the advantage of mutual authentication features offered by some EAP variants of 802.1X port-based network access control (PBNAC) (3) presenting a new code titled quantum message integrity code (Q-MIC) that provides mutual authentication between the two communication parties and its implementation.