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It has been shown recently that the use of two pairs of resistors with enhanced Johnson-noise and a Kirchhoff-loop-i.e., a Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) protocol-for secure key distribution leads to information theoretic security…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-17 R. Mingesz , L. B. Kish , Z. Gingl , C. G. Granqvist , H. Wen , F. Peper , T. Eubank , G. Schmera

We classify and analyze bit errors in the current measurement mode of the Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) key distribution. The error probability decays exponentially with increasing bit exchange period and fixed bandwidth, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Yessica Saez , Laszlo B. Kish , Robert Mingesz , Zoltan Gingl , Claes G. Granqvist

The information-theoretically (unconditionally) secure Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) bit exchange protocol uses two identical resistor pairs with high (H) and low (L) resistance values, driven by Gaussian noise generators emulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Recep Akif Tasci , Ibrahim Yildirim , Ertugrul Basar

It is shown that the original Kirchhoff-loop-Johnson(-like)-noise (KLJN) cipher is naturally protected against the man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, if the eavesdropper is using resistors and noise voltage generators just like the sender and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo B. Kish

In this paper we determine the noise properties needed for unconditional security for the ideal Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key distribution system using simple statistical analysis. It has already been shown using physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Zoltan Gingl , Robert Mingesz

Recently, Gunn, Allison and Abbott (GAA) [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2709v2.pdf] proposed a new scheme to utilize electromagnetic waves for eavesdropping on the Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key distribution. We proved in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Hsien-Pu Chen , Laszlo B. Kish , Claes-Goran Granqvist , Gabor Schmera

We present a comprehensive analysis of the Johnson (like) noise based classical key-distribution scheme presented by Kish [1]. We suggest two passive attack strategies that enable an adversary to gain complete knowledge of the exchanged…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacob Scheuer , Amnon Yariv

A method to quantify the error probability at the Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key exchange is introduced. The types of errors due to statistical inaccuracies in noise voltage measurements are classified and the error…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Yessica Saez , Laszlo B. Kish

It is shown that narrowing the difference between the high and low resistor values in the Kirchhoff Law-Johnson Noise (KLJN) key exchange strongly affects security against a recently introduced binary classifier-based wire resistance…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Mehmet Yildirim , Laszlo B. Kish

We introduce seven new versions of the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-(like)-Noise (KLJN) classical physical secure key exchange scheme and a new transient protocol for practically-perfect security. While these practical improvements offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Laszlo B. Kish

This letter proposes a novel hybrid key distribution architecture that jointly exploits quantum key distribution (QKD) and Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) statistical-physical key exchange. In the proposed system, an optical BB84-type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Ertugrul Basar

We introduce a protocol with a reconfigurable filter system to create non-overlapping single loops in the smart power grid for the realization of the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-(like)-Noise secure key distribution system. The protocol is valid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Elias Gonzalez , Laszlo B. Kish , Robert Balog , Prasad Enjeti

This paper demonstrates the vulnerability of the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key exchanger to compromised random number generator(s) even if these random numbers are used solely to generate the noises emulating the Johnson…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Christiana Chamon , Shahriar Ferdous , Laszlo Kish

The Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key exchange scheme leverages statistical physics to enable secure communication with zero average power flow in a wired channel. While the original KLJN scheme requires significant power for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Christiana Chamon

We point out that the claims in the comment-paper of Scheuer and Yariv are either irrelevant or incorrect. The idealized Kirchoff-loop-Johnson-like-noise (KLJN) scheme is totally secure therefore it is more secure than idealized quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo B. Kish

The statistical-physics-based Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) key exchange offers a new and simple unclonable system for credit/debit card chip authentication and payment. The key exchange, the authentication and the communication are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Laszlo Bela Kish , Kamran Entesari , Claes-Goran Granqvist , Chiman Kwan

We introduce two new Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key distribution schemes which are generalizations of the original KLJN scheme. The first of these, the Random-Resistor (RR-) KLJN scheme, uses random resistors with values…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Laszlo Bela Kish , Claes-Goran Granqvist

We critically analyze the results and claims in [Physics Letters A 373 (2009) 901-904]. We show that the strong security leak appeared in the simulations is only an artifact and not caused by "multiple reflections". Since no wave modes…

General Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Laszlo B. Kish , Tamas Horvath

In a former paper [Fluct. Noise Lett., 13 (2014) 1450020] we introduced a vehicular communication system with unconditionally secure key exchange based on the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) key distribution scheme. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-09 X. Cao , Y. Saez , G. Pesti , L. B. Kish

This study investigates a duality approach to information leak detection in the generalized Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise secure key exchange scheme proposed by Vadai, Mingesz, and Gingl (VMG-KLJN). While previous work by Chamon and Kish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sarah Flanery , Anson Trapani , Christiana Chamon , Leyla Nazhandali