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 …

[HTML][HTML] Physical unclonable functions in the internet of things: State of the art and open challenges

A Babaei, G Schiele - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices are on the rise. Physical Unclonable Functions
(PUFs) are proposed as a robust and lightweight solution to secure IoT devices. The main …

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 …

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 …

A lockdown technique to prevent machine learning on PUFs for lightweight authentication

MD Yu, M Hiller, J Delvaux, R Sowell… - … on Multi-Scale …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a lightweight PUF-based authentication approach that is practical in settings
where a server authenticates a device, and for use cases where the number of …

Deep learning based model building attacks on arbiter PUF compositions

P Santikellur, A Bhattacharyay… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2019 - eprint.iacr.org
Robustness to modeling attacks is an important requirement for PUF circuits. Several
reported Arbiter PUF com-positions have resisted modeling attacks. and often require huge …

Approximation attacks on strong PUFs

J Shi, Y Lu, J Zhang - … transactions on computer-aided design of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical unclonable function (PUF) is a promising lightweight hardware security primitive for
resource-constrained systems. It can generate a large number of challenge-response pairs …

A multiplexer-based arbiter PUF composition with enhanced reliability and security

DP Sahoo, D Mukhopadhyay… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Arbiter Physically Unclonable Functions (APUFs), while being relatively lightweight, are
extremely vulnerable to modeling attacks. Hence, various compositions of APUFs such as …

A survey on lightweight entity authentication with strong PUFs

J Delvaux, R Peeters, D Gu… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) exploit the unavoidable manufacturing variations of
an Integrated Circuit (IC). Their input-output behavior serves as a unique IC “fingerprint.” …

Applications of machine learning techniques in side-channel attacks: a survey

B Hettwer, S Gehrer, T Güneysu - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2020 - Springer
With increasing expansion of the Internet of Things, embedded devices equipped with
cryptographic modules become an important factor to protect sensitive data. Even though …