Totally Secure Classical Communication Utilizing Johnson (-like) Noise and Kirchoff's Law

dc.creatorKish, Laszlo B.
dc.date2005-09-15
dc.date2006-02-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:34:05Z
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dc.descriptionAn absolutely secure, fast, inexpensive, robust, maintenance-free and low-power- consumption communication is proposed. The states of the information bit are represented by two resistance values. The sender and the receiver have such resistors available and they randomly select and connect one of them to the channel at the beginning of each clock period. The thermal noise voltage and current can be observed but Kirchoff's law provides only a second-order equation. A secure bit is communicated when the actual resistance values at the sender's side and the receiver's side differ. Then the second order equation yields the two resistance values but the eavesdropper is unable to determine the actual locations of the resistors and to find out the state of the sender's bit. The receiver knows that the sender has the inverse of his bit, similarly to quantum entanglement. The eavesdropper can decode the message if, for each bits, she inject current in the wire and measures the voltage change and the current changes in the two directions. However, in this way she gets discovered by the very first bit she decodes. Instead of thermal noise, proper external noise generators should be used when the communication is not aimed to be stealth.
dc.descriptionPhysics Letters A, in press; Manuscript featured by Science, vol. 309, p. 2148 (2005, September 30)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509136
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509136
dc.identifierPhysics Letters A 352 (March, 2006) 178-182
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physleta.2005.11.062
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159362
dc.subjectClassical Physics
dc.subjectCryptography and Security
dc.subjectGeneral Physics
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleTotally Secure Classical Communication Utilizing Johnson (-like) Noise and Kirchoff's Law
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