The invention discloses a method for enabling a classical application to have access to a
quantum communication network. The method includes the steps of (1) configuring the network, (2) receiving classical application data, (3) carrying out address conversion, (4) judging whether the data need to be sent to an outer network, (5) judging whether the data need to be encrypted, (6) judging whether the data are data packets, (7) encrypting a data portion, (8) judging whether decryption is needed, (9) decrypting the data portion, and (10) forwarding a
network layer protocol IP
datagram. According to the method, a
quantum communication terminal is set to be an access gateway of an application terminal, classical application terminals are discriminated through IP addresses, a
quantum encrypted
datagram is identified with a head option field of the IP
datagram, a starting portion of a secret key used for encrypting and decrypting is recorded, quantum encrypted transmission can be carried out on data of the quantum application terminal, meanwhile, data of the classical application terminals can be transmitted, and fusion of classical communication and quantum communication is achieved.