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Dynamic and non-linear systems are emerging as potential candidates for random bit generation. In this context, chaotic systems, which are both dynamic and stochastic, are particularly suitable. This paper introduces a new continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Ngoc T. Nguyen , Toan Q. Bui , Ghyslain Gagnon , Pascal Giard , Georges Kaddoum

Unpredictable functions (UPFs) play essential roles in classical cryptography, including message authentication codes (MACs) and digital signatures. In this paper, we introduce a quantum analog of UPFs, which we call unpredictable state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Tomoyuki Morimae , Shogo Yamada , Takashi Yamakawa

An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) enables effortless conversations in call routing through spoken utterance classification (SUC) which is a special form of spoken language understanding (SLU). Building a SUC system requires a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Shahab Jalalvand , Srinivas Bangalore

Some of the main challenges towards utilizing conventional cryptographic techniques in Internet of Things (IoT) include the need for generating secret keys for such a large-scale network, distributing the generated keys to all the devices,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Ashwija Reddy Korenda , Fatemeh Afghah , Bertrand Cambou

With ChatGPT as a representative, tons of companies have began to provide services based on large Transformers models. However, using such a service inevitably leak users' prompts to the model provider. Previous studies have studied secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ye Dong , Wen-jie Lu , Yancheng Zheng , Haoqi Wu , Derun Zhao , Jin Tan , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Tao Wei , Wenguang Chen

Previous schemes for designing secure branch prediction unit (SBPU) based on physical isolation can only offer limited security and significantly affect BPU's prediction capability, leading to prominent performance degradation. Moreover,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhe Zhou , Fei Tong , Hongyu Wang , Xiaoyu Cheng , Fang Jiang , Zhikun Zhang , Yuxing Mao

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 consider a secret key agreement problem in which noisy physical unclonable function (PUF) outputs facilitate reliable, secure, and private key agreement with the help of public, noiseless, and authenticated storage. PUF outputs are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Simple authentication protocols based on conventional physical unclonable function (PUF) are vulnerable to modeling attacks and other security threats. This paper proposes an arbiter PUF based on a linear feedback shift register…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yao Wang , Xue Mei , Zhengtai Chang , Wenbing Fan , Benqing Guo , Zhi Quan

Unix competence is the ability to use shell and operating-system primitives as first-class tools, not merely to write programs through a terminal. Current terminal benchmarks tend to blur this distinction: a solver fluent in Python but weak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Geoffrey Bradway , Roger Creus Castanyer , Lorenz Wolf , Maxwill Lin , Matthew James Sargent , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker

In this work, we explore the possibility of universally composable (UC)-secure commitments using Physically Uncloneable Functions (PUFs) within a new adversarial model. We introduce the communicating malicious PUFs, i.e. malicious PUFs that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lourenço Abecasis , Paulo Mateus , Chrysoula Vlachou

In this work, we consider the problem of designing secure and efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks. Existing solutions either involve a trusted aggregator or require heavyweight cryptographic primitives, which degrades performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Jieren Deng , Chenghong Wang , Xianrui Meng , Yijue Wang , Ji Li , Sheng Lin , Shuo Han , Fei Miao , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran , Caiwen Ding

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) based on Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology have emerged as a promising solution for secure authentication and cryptographic applications. By leveraging the multi-level cell (MLC) characteristic of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hassan Nassar , Ming-Liang Wei , Chia-Lin Yang , Jörg Henkel , Kuan-Hsun Chen

Embedded systems or micro controller based modules have become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. However, the security of embedded devices as well as the authenticity of hardware has become an increasing concern within the growing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Surbhi Vasudeva , Sara Tehranipoor , Nima Karimian

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…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) turns out to be a promising solution to breakthrough the memory wall and the power wall. While prior PIM designs yield successful implementation of bitwise Boolean logic operations locally in memory, it is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Xin Ma , Liang Chang , Shuangchen Li , Lei Deng , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) leverage inherent, non-clonable physical randomness to generate unique input-output pairs, serving as secure fingerprints for cryptographic protocols like authentication. Quantum PUFs (QPUFs) extend this…

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide hardware-level security by exploiting intrinsic randomness to produce device-unique responses. However, machine learning and side-channel attacks increasingly undermine their classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Mohammadreza Vali , Hossein Aghababa , Nasser Yazdani

We introduce a mathematical framework for simulating Hybrid Boolean Network (HBN) Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs, HBN-PUFs). We verify that the model is able to reproduce the experimentally observed PUF statistics for uniqueness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Noeloikeau Charlot , Daniel J. Gauthier , Daniel Canaday , Andrew Pomerance

Public key cryptography protocols, such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography, will be rendered insecure by Shor's algorithm when large-scale quantum computers are built. Cryptographers are working on quantum-resistant algorithms, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Utsav Banerjee , Tenzin S. Ukyab , Anantha P. Chandrakasan