Physical unclonable functions

Y Gao, SF Al-Sarawi, D Abbott - Nature Electronics, 2020 - nature.com
A physical unclonable function (PUF) is a device that exploits inherent randomness
introduced during manufacturing to give a physical entity a unique 'fingerprint'or trust anchor …

Detecting compromised IoT devices: Existing techniques, challenges, and a way forward

I Makhdoom, M Abolhasan, D Franklin, J Lipman… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
IoT devices, whether connected to the Internet or operating in a private network, are
vulnerable to cyber attacks from external or internal attackers or insiders who may succeed …

A puf taxonomy

T McGrath, IE Bagci, ZM Wang, U Roedig… - Applied physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Authentication is an essential cryptographic primitive that confirms the identity of parties
during communications. For security, it is important that these identities are complex, in order …

PUF modeling attacks on simulated and silicon data

U Rührmair, J Sölter, F Sehnke, X Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss numerical modeling attacks on several proposed strong physical unclonable
functions (PUFs). Given a set of challenge-response pairs (CRPs) of a Strong PUF, the goal …

[BOOK][B] Physically unclonable functions: Concept and constructions

R Maes, R Maes - 2013 - Springer
This chapter introduces the reader to the basic concept of a physically unclonable function
or PUF. Many research results on this topic were published over recent years in a variety of …

The gap between promise and reality: On the insecurity of XOR arbiter PUFs

GT Becker - … Hardware and Embedded Systems--CHES 2015: 17th …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper we demonstrate the first real-world cloning attack on a commercial PUF-based
RFID tag. The examined commercial PUFs can be attacked by measuring only 4 protocol …

The interpose PUF: Secure PUF design against state-of-the-art machine learning attacks

PH Nguyen, DP Sahoo, C **, K Mahmood… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2018 - eprint.iacr.org
The design of a silicon Strong Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) that is lightweight and
stable, and which possesses a rigorous security argument, has been a fundamental problem …

A PUF-based secure communication protocol for IoT

U Chatterjee, RS Chakraborty… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Security features are of paramount importance for the Internet of Things (IoT), and
implementations are challenging given the resource-constrained IoT setup. We have …

Splitting the interpose PUF: A novel modeling attack strategy

N Wisiol, C Mühl, N Pirnay, PH Nguyen… - IACR Transactions on …, 2020 - tches.iacr.org
We demonstrate that the Interpose PUF proposed at CHES 2019, an Arbiter PUF-based
design for so-called Strong Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), can be modeled by …

A retrospective and a look forward: Fifteen years of physical unclonable function advancement

CH Chang, Y Zheng, L Zhang - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Severe security threats and alerts associated with the use of smart devices have drawn
increasing public attentions since the inception of Internet of Things (IoT) in late 1990s. IoT …