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RISecure-PUF: Multipurpose PUF-Driven Security Extensions with Lookaside Buffer in RISC-V

Cryptography and Security 2024-11-22 v1

Abstract

RISC-V's limited security features hinder its use in confidential computing and heterogeneous platforms. This paper introduces RISecure-PUF, a security extension utilizing existing Physical Unclonable Functions for key generation and secure protocol purposes. A one-way hash function is integrated to ensure provable security against modeling attacks, while a lookaside buffer accelerates batch sampling and minimizes reliance on error correction codes. Implemented on the Genesys 2 FPGA, RISecure-PUF improves at least 2.72×2.72\times in batch scenarios with negligible hardware overhead and a maximum performance reduction of 10.7%10.7\%, enabled by reusing the hash function module in integrated environments such as cryptographic engines.

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@article{arxiv.2411.14025,
  title  = {RISecure-PUF: Multipurpose PUF-Driven Security Extensions with Lookaside Buffer in RISC-V},
  author = {Chenghao Chen and Xiaolin Zhang and Kailun Qin and Tengfei Wang and Yipeng Shi and Tianyi Huang and Chi Zhang and Dawu Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14025},
  year   = {2024}
}
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