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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

Embedded systems play a crucial role in fueling the growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in application domains such as healthcare, home automation, transportation, etc. However, their increasingly network-connected nature, coupled with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Soubhagya Sutar , Arnab Raha , Vijay Raghunathan

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

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are widely used to generate random Numbers. In this paper we propose a new architecture in which an Arbiter Based PUF has been employed as a nonlinear function in Nonlinear Feedback Shift Register (NFSR)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Ali Sadr , Mostafa Zolfaghari-Nejad

Mobile and embedded devices are becoming inevitable parts of our daily routine. Similar to other electronic devices such as read access memory (RAM) and storage, mobile devices require to authenticate and to be authenticated in a secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Alireza Shamsoshoara

We propose an approach for fast random number generation based on homemade optical physical unclonable functions (PUFs). The optical PUF is illuminated with input laser wavefront of continuous modulation to obtain different speckle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Kun Chen , Feng Huang , Pidong Wang , Yongbiao Wan , Dong Li , Yao Yao

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are increasingly adopted for low-cost and secure secret key and chip ID generations for embedded and IoT devices. Achieving 100% reproducible keys across wide temperature and voltage variations over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yan He , Dai Li , Zhanghao Yu , Kaiyuan Yang

With rapid advancements in electronic gadgets, the security and privacy aspects of these devices are significant. For the design of secure systems, physical unclonable function (PUF) and true random number generator (TRNG) are critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Simranjeet Singh , Furqan Zahoor , Gokulnath Rajendran , Sachin Patkar , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Farhad Merchant

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are small circuits that are widely used as hardware security primitives for authentication. These circuits can generate unique signatures because of the inherent randomness in manufacturing and process…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

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

As the demand for highly secure and dependable lightweight systems increases in the modern world, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) continue to promise a lightweight alternative to high-cost encryption techniques and secure key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Owen Millwood , Jack Miskelly , Bohao Yang , Prosanta Gope , Elif Kavun , Chenghua Lin

In this paper, an algebraic binning based coding scheme and its associated achievable rate for key generation using physically unclonable functions (PUFs) is determined. This achievable rate is shown to be optimal under the generated-secret…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Yitao Chen , Muryong Kim , Sriram Vishwanath

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide promising hardware security for IoT authentication, leveraging inherent randomness suitable for resource constrained environments. However, ML/DL modeling attacks threaten PUF security by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Joy Acharya , Smit Patel , Paawan Sharma , Mohendra Roy

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

An SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) can distinguish SRAM modules by analyzing the inherent randomness of their start-up behavior. However, the effectiveness of this technique varies depending on the design and fabrication of the SRAM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Martina Zeinzinger , Josef Langer , Florian Eibensteiner , Phillip Petz , Lucas Drack , Daniel Dorfmeister , Rudolf Ramler

This article presents a reconfigurable physically unclonable function (PUF) design fabricated using 65-nm CMOS technology. A subthreshold-inverter-based static PUF cell achieves 0.3% native bit error rate (BER) at 0.062-fJ per bit core…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Dai Li , Kaiyuan Yang

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been shown to be a highly promising solution for enabling high security systems tailored for low-power devices. Commonly, PUFs are utilised to generate cryptographic keys on-the-fly, replacing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Hongming Fei , Owen Millwood , Gope Prosanta , Jack Miskelly , Biplab Sikdar

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

We present a practical and highly secure method for the authentication of chips based on a new concept for implementing strong Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Its qualitatively novel feature is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Alexander Spenke , Ralph Breithaupt , Rainer Plaga

A physical unclonable function (PUF) generates hardware intrinsic volatile secrets by exploiting uncontrollable manufacturing randomness. Although PUFs provide the potential for lightweight and secure authentication for increasing numbers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yansong Gao , Marten van Dijk , Lei Xu , Wei Yang , Surya Nepal , Damith C. Ranasinghe