PUFs at a glance

U Rührmair, DE Holcomb - 2014 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a new, hardware-based security primitive, which
has been introduced just about a decade ago. In this paper, we provide a brief and easily …

Persistent clocks for batteryless sensing devices

J Hester, N Tobias, A Rahmati, L Sitanayah… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Sensing platforms are becoming batteryless to enable the vision of the Internet of Things,
where trillions of devices collect data, interact with each other, and interact with people …

Improved reliability of FPGA-based PUF identification generator design

C Gu, N Hanley, M O'neill - ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), a form of physical security primitive, enable digital
identifiers to be extracted from devices, such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) …

Remanence decay side-channel: The PUF case

S Zeitouni, Y Oren, C Wachsmann… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a side-channel attack based on remanence decay in volatile memory and show
how it can be exploited effectively to launch a noninvasive cloning attack against SRAM …

A Difference World: High-performance,{NVM-invariant}, Software-only Intermittent Computation

H Williams, S Ahmad, M Hicks - 2024 USENIX Annual Technical …, 2024 - usenix.org
Supporting long life, high performance, intermittent computation is an essential challenge in
allowing energy harvesting devices to fulfill the vision of smart dust. Intermittent computation …

Bitline PUF: building native challenge-response PUF capability into any SRAM

DE Holcomb, K Fu - … Hardware and Embedded Systems–CHES 2014: 16th …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are specialized circuits with applications
including key generation and challenge-response authentication. PUF properties such as …

Forget failure: Exploiting sram data remanence for low-overhead intermittent computation

H Williams, X Jian, M Hicks - Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Energy harvesting is a promising solution to power billions of ultra-low-power Internet-of-
Things devices to enable ubiquitous computing. However, energy harvesters typically output …

Breaking through fixed PUF block limitations with differential sequence coding and convolutional codes

M Hiller, M Weiner, L Rodrigues Lima… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Secret key generation with Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) is an alternative to
conventional secure key storage with non-volatile memory. In a PUF, secret bits are …

On the effectiveness of the remanence decay side-channel to clone memory-based PUFs

Y Oren, AR Sadeghi, C Wachsmann - … , Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 20 …, 2013 - Springer
We present a side-channel attack based on remanence decay in volatile memory and show
how it can be exploited effectively to launch a non-invasive cloning attack against SRAM …

Reliable physical unclonable functions using data retention voltage of SRAM cells

X Xu, A Rahmati, DE Holcomb, K Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are circuits that produce outputs determined by
random physical variations from fabrication. The PUF studied in this paper utilizes the …