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Quantum physical unclonable functions, or QPUFs, are rapidly emerging as theoretical hardware solutions to provide secure cryptographic functionalities such as key-exchange, message authentication, entity identification among others. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Niraj Kumar , Rawad Mezher , Elham Kashefi

Implantable medical devices (IMDs), such as pacemakers, implanted cardiac defibrillators, and neurostimulators are medical devices implanted into patients' bodies for monitoring physiological signals and performing medical treatments. Many…

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Wide-bandgap (WBG) technologies offer unprecedented improvements in power system efficiency, size, and performance, but also introduce unique sensor corruption and cybersecurity risks in industrial control systems (ICS), particularly due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Devon A. Kelly , Christiana Chamon

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

Cloning spare parts and entities of mass products is an old and serious unsolved problem for the automotive industry. The economic losses in addition to a loss of know-how and IP theft as well as security and safety threats are huge in all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Wael Adi , Ayoub Mars

Federated learning (FL) represents a novel paradigm to machine learning, addressing critical issues related to data privacy and security, yet suffering from data insufficiency and imbalance. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xi Li , Songhe Wang , Chen Wu , Hao Zhou , Jiaqi Wang

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…

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Chenghao Chen , Xiaolin Zhang , Kailun Qin , Tengfei Wang , Yipeng Shi , Tianyi Huang , Chi Zhang , Dawu Gu

Recently, major progress has been made towards the realisation of quantum internet to enable a broad range of classically intractable applications. These applications such as delegated quantum computation require running a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mina Doosti , Niraj Kumar , Mahshid Delavar , Elham Kashefi

We present a comprehensive investigation into the complexity of a new private key storage apparatus: a novel silicon photonic physical unclonable function (PUF) based on ultrafast nonlinear optical interactions in a chaotic silicon…

Cryptographic algorithms such as AES-128 and SHA-256 are fundamental to ensuring data security and integrity. Although these algorithms are computationally efficient, their performance is often constrained by the processor-centric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nicola Barcarolo , Brahmaiah Gandham , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Roberto Passerone , Onur Mutlu , Flavio Vella

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative model training while keeping raw data decentralized, making it a conduit for leveraging the power of IoT devices while maintaining privacy of the locally collected data. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Amr Akmal Abouelmagd , Amr Hilal

This paper presents a framework for securing blockchain-based IoT systems by integrating Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) within a Hyperledger Fabric environment. The proposed framework leverages PUFs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Daniel Commey , Sena Hounsinou , Garth V. Crosby

We investigate usage of nonlinear wave chaotic amorphous silicon (a-Si) cavities as physically unclonable functions (PUF). Machine learning attacks on integrated electronic PUFs have been demonstrated to be very effective at modeling PUF…

Neuromorphic computing mimics brain-inspired mechanisms through spiking neurons and energy-efficient processing, offering a pathway to efficient in-memory computing (IMC). However, these advancements raise critical security and privacy…

Attackers willing to compromise computing systems can use malicious peripherals as an attack vector, threatening users that cannot verify the hardware's authenticity. To address this problem, our work uses the Security Protocol and Data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ágatha de Freitas , Marcos A. Simplicio , Bruno C. Albertini , Renan C. A. Alves

The memory system of a modern embedded processor consumes a large fraction of total system energy. We explore a range of different configuration options and show that a reconfigurable design can make better use of the resources available to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Daniel Bates , Alex Chadwick , Robert Mullins

The increasing prevalence and growing size of data in modern applications have led to high costs for computation in traditional processor-centric computing systems. Moving large volumes of data between memory devices (e.g., DRAM) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Juan Gómez-Luna , Saugata Ghose , Onur Mutlu

This paper reviews memory technologies used in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for neuromorphic computing, a brain-inspired approach transforming artificial intelligence with improved efficiency and performance. It focuses on the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dexter Le , Baran Arig , Murat Isik , I. Can Dikmen , Teoman Karadag

In this work the novel usage of a physically unclonable function composed of a network of Mach-Zehnder interferometers for authentication tasks is described. The physically unclonable function hardware is completely reconfigurable, allowing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 H S. Jacinto , A. Matthew Smith