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In the process of finding high-performance organic semiconductors (OSCs), it is of paramount importance in material development to identify important functional units that play key roles in material performance and subsequently establish…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Xinyue Zhang , Genwang Wei , Ye Sheng , Jiong Yang , Caichao Ye , Wenqing Zhang

In this paper, we introduce chemical functions, a unified framework that models chemical systems as noisy challenge--response primitives, and formalize the associated chemical function infrastructure. Building on the theory of physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frederik Walter , Hrishi Narayanan , Jessica Bariffi , Anne Lüscher , Rawad Bitar , Robert Grass , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Zohar Yakhini

This paper presents the PUF finite state machine (PUF-FSM) that is served as a practical {\it controlled} strong PUF. Previous controlled PUF designs have the difficulties of stabilizing the noisy PUF responses where the error correction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Yansong Gao , Damith C. Ranasinghe

The exponentially increasing number of ubiquitous wireless devices connected to the Internet in Internet of Things (IoT) networks highlights the need for a new paradigm of data flow management in such large-scale networks under software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Afghah , Bertrand Cambou , Masih Abedini , Sherali Zeadally

We construct a strong PUF with provable security against ML attacks on both classical and quantum computers. The security is guaranteed by the cryptographic hardness of learning decryption functions of public-key cryptosystems, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiaodan Xi , Ge Li , Ye Wang , Yeonsoo Jeon , Michael Orshansky

This paper addresses 6-DOF (degree-of-freedom) tactile localization, i.e. the pose estimation of tridimensional objects given tactile measurements. This estimation problem is fundamental for the operation of autonomous robots that are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Giulia Vezzani , Ugo Pattacini , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Lorenzo Natale

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

There has been a growing interest in fully integrating Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) for cryptographic primitives, or keyless encryption. Keyless primitives do not store key information during the entire encryption and decryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dina Ghanai Miandoab , Sareh Assiri , Joseph Mihaljevic , Bertrand Cambou

The signing key protection of Certificate Authorities (CAs) remains a critical challenge in PKI. Traditional approaches struggle to eliminate the risk of key exposure due to those (un)intentional human errors. This long-standing dilemma…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaolin Zhang , Chenghao Chen , Kailun Qin , Yuxuan Wang , Shipei Qu , Tengfei Wang , Chi Zhang , Dawu Gu

In this paper, we present a reconfigurable multiplex (MUX) setup that increases the throughput of electrical characterisation at cryogenic temperature. The setup separates the MUX circuitry from quantum device under test (qDUT), allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Xinya Bian , Hannah J Joyce , Charles G Smith , Michael J Kelly , G Andrew D Briggs , Jan A Mol

We explore a new pathway to designing unclonable cryptographic primitives. We propose a new notion called unclonable puncturable obfuscation (UPO) and study its implications for unclonable cryptography. Using UPO, we present modular (and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Prabhanjan Ananth , Amit Behera

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

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a method of generating low-cost device signatures for distributed wireless brain implants, using a Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) Generator that utilizes a modified Ring-Oscillator-based Physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ovishake Sen , Baibhab Chatterjee

In this article we describe the characteristics of a large integrated linear optical device containing Mach-Zehnder interferometers and describe its potential use as a physically unclonable function. We propose that any tunable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 A. Matthew Smith , H S. Jacinto

In most PUF-based authentication schemes, a central server is usually engaged to verify the response of the device's PUF to challenge bit-streams. However, the server availability may be intermittent in practice. To tackle such an issue,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Mohammad Ebrahimabadi , Mohamed Younis , Wassila Lalouani , Naghmeh Karimi

Authentication is a fundamental building block of secure quantum networks, essential for quantum cryptographic protocols and often debated as a key limitation of quantum key distribution (QKD) in security standards. Most quantum-safe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Suchetana Goswami , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

Designing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) synthesis protocols is currently largely driven by trial-and-error, since we lack fundamental understanding of the molecular level mechanisms that underlie their self-assembly processes. Previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Sahar Andarzi Gargari , Emilio Méndez , Rocio Semino

In an increasingly interconnected world, protecting electronic devices has grown more crucial because of the dangers of data extraction, reverse engineering, and hardware tampering. Producing chips in a third-party manufacturing company can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tanvir Rahman , A. B. M. Harun-ur Rashid

Emerging applications of photonics in computing, sensing, and security increasingly demand complex input-output behaviors, including highly nonlinear transformations of optical signals. Traditional photonic systems rely on highly structured…

We present a memristive device based R$ ^3 $PUF construction achieving highly desired PUF properties, which are not offered by most current PUF designs: (1) High reliability, almost 100\% that is crucial for PUF-based cryptographic key…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Yansong Gao , Damith C. Ranasinghe