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A recent paper by Gunn-Allison-Abbott (GAA) [L.J. Gunn et al., Scientific Reports 4 (2014) 6461] argued that the Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key exchange system could experience a severe information leak. Here we refute their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Laszlo B. Kish , Zoltan Gingl , Robert Mingesz , Gergely Vadai , Janusz Smulko , Claes-Goran Granqvist

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

A recent IEEE Access Paper by Gunn, Allison and Abbott (GAA) proposed a new transient attack against the Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key exchange system. The attack is valid, but it is easy to build a defense for the KLJN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-19 Laszlo Bela Kish , Claes Goran Granqvist

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

In this paper, we introduce the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) as an approach to securing satellite communications. KLJN has the potential to revolutionize satellite communication security through its combination of simplicity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Lucas Truax , Sandip Roy , Laszlo B. Kish

The security vulnerability of the Vadai, Mingesz, and Gingl (VMG) Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) key exchanger, as presented in the publication "Nature, Science Report 5 (2015) 13653," has been exposed to transient attacks. Recently an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Shahriar Ferdous , 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

This dissertation demonstrates three new types of attacks against the KLJN scheme. The first attack type is based on compromised RNGs. The first RNG attacks are deterministic. First, Eve knows both noises. She can crack the bit via Ohm's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Christiana Chamon

A new attack against the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise(KLJN) secure key exchange scheme is introduced. The attack exploits a parasitic (periodic) AC voltage-source at either Alice or Bob ends. Such situations exist due to AC ground loops and…

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

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

A new attack against the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) key distribution system is explored. The attack is based on utilizing a parasitic dc-voltage-source in the loop. Relevant situations often exist in the low-frequency limit in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Mutaz Y. Melhem , Laszlo B. Kish

This is the longer (partially unpublished) version of response; the shorter version (http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605013) is published in Physics Letters A. We point out that the claims in the comment-paper of Scheuer and Yariv are either…

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

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

We discuss the speed-error-heat triangle and related problems with rapidly increasing energy dissipation and error rate during miniaturization. These and the independently growing need of unconditional data security have provoked…

General Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 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

Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is a developing technology with constraints in energy consumption, coverage radius, communication reliability. Also, communications between nodes contain very sensitive personal information in which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Behrooz Khadem , Amin Masoumi , M. S. Farash

In a forthcoming paper in IEE Proceedings Information Security, Feng Hao claims that temperature inaccuracies make the key exchange scheme based on Kirchhoff Loop with Johnson-like Noise insecure. First we point out that this claim is…

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

We demonstrate the security vulnerability of the ideal Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) key exchanger against transient attacks. Transients start when Alice and Bob connect the wire to their chosen resistor at the beginning of each clock…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shahriar Ferdous , Laszlo B. Kish

In this paper, wireless power transfer and cooperative jamming (CJ) are combined to enhance physical security in public transportation networks. First, a new secure system model with both fixed and mobile jammers is proposed to guarantee…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Linqing Gui , Feifei Bao , Xiaobo Zhou , Chunhua Yu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

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