Current Injection and Voltage Insertion Attacks Against the VMG-KLJN Secure Key Exchanger Academic Article

abstract

• In this paper, the vulnerability of the Vadai, Mingesz and Gingl (VMG)- Kirchhoff-LawJohnson-Noise (KLJN) Key Exchanger (Nature, Science Report 5 (2015) 13653) against two active attacks is demonstrated. The security vulnerability arises from the fact that the effective driving impedances are different between the HL and LH cases for the VMG-KLJN scheme; whereas for the ideal KLJN scheme, they are the same. Two defense schemes are shown against these attacks but each of them can protect against only one of the attack types; but not against the two attacks simultaneously. The theoretical results are confirmed by computer simulations.

authors

• Kish, Laszlo

published proceedings

• FLUCTUATION AND NOISE LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Ferdous, S., Chamon, C., & Kish, L.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Ferdous, Shahriar||Chamon, Christiana||Kish, Laszlo BB

publication date

• February 2023

publisher

• World Scientific Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL)  Journal

keywords

• Active Attacks
• Information Theoretic (unconditional) Security
• Mingesz And Gingl (vmg)-kljn Scheme
• Vadai

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1142/S0219477523500098

start page

• 2350009

volume

• 22

issue

• 01

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219477523500098