Dr. Laszlo Kish

KurzweilAI.net reported that

Dr. Laszlo Kish, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M, has proposed that a simple pair of resistors on the ends of a communications line could keep eavesdroppers from intercepting secret messages.
 
The scheme uses the thermal noise (Johnson noise) produced by the resistors or added electrical noise to make it function and keep the message secret.
 
The sender and receiver each have two resistors of different resistance. Each randomly connects a resistor between their ends of the wire and ground, and then the sender begins transmitting the message. Using the natural thermal noise produced by the resistors provides stealth makes the communication difficult to discover.

Dr. Laszlo Kish received a Physicist Diploma (MS) from Attila József University (JATE), Hungary in 1980 and a Doctoral Degree in Solid State Physics (Summa cum laude) from JATE in 1984. He received a Docent in Solid State Physics (habilitation) from Uppsala University, Sweden in 1994. He received a Doctor of Science (Physics), from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2001. He was recipient of the year of the 2001 Benzelius Prize of the Royal Society of Science of Sweden for his activities on chemical sensing.
 
Laszlo is Editor-in-Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters and serves on the Editorial Board of Nanotechnology Newsletter and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is the author of 8 patents and 200+ international publications. He was the Chair of SPIE's Conference on Bio-MEMS and Smart Nanostructures at Adelaide, Australia in 2001.
 
He coedited Gas Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis, Unsolved Problems of Noise and Fluctuations : UPoN'99: Second International Conference, Adelaide, Australia 11-15 July 1999 (AIP Conference Proceedings), and Noise in Complex Systems And Stochastic Dynamics 3, and coauthored Realization and Experimental Demonstration of the Kirchhoff-loop- Johnson(-like)-Noise Communicator for up to 200 km range. He also coauthored the innovative HTML document available for download from Amazon, The dancer and the piper: resolving problems with government research contracting.
 
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