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Physical Unclonable Functions can be used for secure key generation in cryptographic applications. It is explained how methods from coding theory must be applied in order to ensure reliable key regeneration. Based on previous work, we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Sven Müelich , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert , Matthias Hiller , Georg Sigl

Physical Unclonable Functions evaluate manufacturing variations to generate secure cryptographic keys for embedded systems without secure key storage. It is explained how methods from coding theory are applied in order to ensure reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Sven Puchinger , Sven Müelich , Martin Bossert , Matthias Hiller , Georg Sigl

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) exploit variations in the manufacturing process to derive bit sequences from integrated circuits, which can be used as secure cryptographic keys. Instead of storing the keys in an insecure, non-volatile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Sven Müelich , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

In this paper, we consider the generation and utilization of helper data for physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that provide real-valued readout symbols. Compared to classical binary PUFs, more entropy can be extracted from each basic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Robert F. H. Fischer

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) involve challenging practical applications of error-correcting codes (ECCs), requiring extremely low failure rates on the order of $10^{-6}$ and below despite raw input bit error rates as high as 22%.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Marvin Rübenacke , Sebastian Cammerer , Michael Sullivan , Alexander Keller

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are relatively new security primitives used for device authentication and device-specific secret key generation. In this paper we focus on SRAM-PUFs. The SRAM-PUFs enjoy uniqueness and randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Bin Chen , Tanya Ignatenko , Frans M. J. Willems , Roel Maes , Erik van der Sluis , Georgios Selimis

Physical unclonable function (PUF) has been proposed as a promising and trustworthy solution to a variety of cryptographic applications. Here we propose a non-imaging based authentication scheme for optical PUFs materialized by random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Pidong Wang , Feiliang Chen , Dong Li , Song Sun , Feng Huang , Taiping Zhang , Qian Li , Kun Chen , Yongbiao Wan , Xiao Leng , Yao Yao

Noisy measurements of a physical unclonable function (PUF) are used to store secret keys with reliability, security, privacy, and complexity constraints. A new set of low-complexity and orthogonal transforms with no multiplication is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

A new definition of "Physical Unclonable Functions" (PUFs), the first one that fully captures its intuitive idea among experts, is presented. A PUF is an information-storage system with a security mechanism that is 1. meant to impede the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Rainer Plaga , Dominik Merli

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) enable physical tamper protection for high-assurance devices without needing a continuous power supply that is active over the entire lifetime of the device. Several methods for PUF-based tamper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Georg Maringer , Matthias Hiller

We address security and privacy problems for digital devices and biometrics from an information-theoretic optimality perspective, where a secret key is generated for authentication, identification, message encryption/decryption, or secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

Nowadays, due to the growing phenomenon of forgery in many fields, the interest in developing new anti-counterfeiting device and cryptography keys, based on the Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) paradigm, is widely increased. PUFs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Giuseppe Emanuele Lio , Mauro Daniel Luigi Bruno , Francesco Riboli , Sara Nocentini , Antonio Ferraro

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a promising solution for identity verification and asymmetric encryption. In this paper, a new Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) PUF-based protocol is presented to create a physical ReRAM PUF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jack Garrard , John F. Hardy , Carlo daCunha , Mayank Bakshi

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are widely considered in secret key generation for resource constrained devices. However, PUFs require additional hardware overhead. In this paper, we focus on developing a PUF-efficient, robust, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yonghong Bai , Zhiyuan Yan

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) exploit the intrinsic complexity and irreproducibility of physical systems to generate secret information. PUFs have the potential to provide fundamentally higher security than traditional cryptographic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-12 Omid Kavehei , Chun Hosung , Damith Ranasinghe , Stan Skafidas

A Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a device with unique behaviour that is hard to clone hence providing a secure fingerprint. A variety of PUF structures and PUF-based applications have been explored theoretically as well as being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Myrto Arapinis , Mahshid Delavar , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are hardware structures in a physical system (e.g. semiconductor, crystals etc.) that are used to enable unique identification of the semiconductor or to secure keys for cryptographic processes. A PUF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Vladlen Galetsky , Soham Ghosh , Christian Deppe , Roberto Ferrara

Disordered photonic structures are promising materials for the realization of physical unclonable functions (PUF), physical objects that can overcome the limitations of conventional digital security methods and that enable cryptographic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Sara Nocentini , Ulrich Rührmair , Mauro Barni , Diederik S. Wiersma , Francesco Riboli

During the last years, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have become a very important research area in the field of hardware security due to their capability of generating volatile secret keys as well as providing a low-cost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 M. Garcia-Bosque , G. Díez-Señorans , C. Sánchez-Azqueta , S. Celma

Encryption techniques demonstrate a great deal of security when implemented in an optical system (such as holography) due to the inherent physical properties of light and the precision it demands. However, such systems have shown to be…

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