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Wireless Personal Communications
Published in: Wireless Personal Communications 2/2017

12-11-2016

Enhancing the Security of IEEE 802.11i Standard by Integrating a Quantum Scheme for Authentication and Encryption Key Distribution

Authors: Aymen Ghilen, Mostafa Azizi, Ridha Bouallegue

Published in: Wireless Personal Communications | Issue 2/2017

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Abstract

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography provides the necessary means to establish a secret and perfectly random key material between two parties. However, classical cryptography suffers from several vulnerabilities that make it unsecure against impersonation attacks or enemy with an unbounded computing power. Improving the contemporary cryptographic methods, based only on computational security, by integrating a quantum cryptographic solution becomes an interesting prospect worth exploring. In this paper, we introduce a quantum scheme, for mutual authentication and key establishment, which will be integrated within IEEE 802.11 networks to reach absolute security. The key issued from the quantum algorithm is a fundamental parameter for authenticating the participating parties and for building the Pairwise key and the Group key hierarchies. To inspect the security of our approach, a formal verification of some security properties is performed using the Model Checking technique.
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Metadata
Title
Enhancing the Security of IEEE 802.11i Standard by Integrating a Quantum Scheme for Authentication and Encryption Key Distribution
Authors
Aymen Ghilen
Mostafa Azizi
Ridha Bouallegue
Publication date
12-11-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Wireless Personal Communications / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0929-6212
Electronic ISSN: 1572-834X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3873-9

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