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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Hacking password databases is one of the most frequently reported cyber-attacks. Current password management systems are based on known and public algorithms. Also, many studies have shown that users select weak passwords. Thus, with the…

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The physical unclonable functions (PUF) are used to provide software as well as hardware security for the cyber-physical systems. They have been used for performing significant cryptography tasks such as generating keys, device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Arjun Singh Chauhan , Vineet Sahula , Atanendu Sekhar Mandal

Weak physical uncloneable function (WPUF) encryption key means that the manufacturer of the hardware can clone the key but anybody else is unable to so that. Strong physical uncloneable function (SPUF) encryption key means that even the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Laszlo B. Kish , Chiman Kwan

In the current information age, asymmetrical cryptography is widely used to protect information and financial transactions such as cryptocurrencies. The loss of private keys can have catastrophic consequences; therefore, effective MFA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mahafujul Alam , Julie B. Heynssens , Bertrand Francis Cambou

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

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) can be employed for device identification, authentication, secret key storage, and other security tasks. However, PUFs are susceptible to modeling attacks if a number of PUFs' challenge-response pairs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mahmood Azhar Qureshi , Arslan Munir

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables Information-Theoretically Secure (ITS) key exchange, robust even against future quantum computing threats. However, a fundamental limitation of QKD is the requirement for an authenticated classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Nicolas Laurent-Puig , Mina Doosti , Adriano Innocenzi , Eleni Diamanti

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

Device-independent quantum cryptographic schemes aim to guarantee security to users based only on the output statistics of any components used, and without the need to verify their internal functionality. Since this would protect users…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Jonathan Barrett , Roger Colbeck , Adrian Kent

Secret Unknown Ciphers (SUC) have been proposed recently as digital clone-resistant functions overcoming some of Physical(ly) Unclonable Functions (PUF) downsides, mainly their inconsistency because of PUFs analog nature. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ayoub Mars , Hussam Ghandour , Wael Adi

In many Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, resources like CPU, memory, and battery power are limited and cannot afford the classic cryptographic security solutions. Silicon Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a lightweight…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Jiliang Zhang , Gang Qu

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are circuits designed to extract physical randomness from the underlying circuit. This randomness depends on the manufacturing process. It differs for each device enabling chip-level authentication and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Yunxi Guo , Timothy Dee , Akhilesh Tyagi

Hardware-based security primitives have become critical to enhancing information security in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) utilize the inherent variations in the manufacturing process to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Min Wang , Chuanpeng Jiang , Zhaohao Wang , Zhengyi Hou , Zhongkui Zhang , Yuanfu Zhao , Hongxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao

Unique key generation is essential for encryption purposes between Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To produce a unique key for this encryption, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) might be employed. Also, the Random Number Generator…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Md Ishtyaq Mahmud , Ahmed Abdelgawad , Venkata P. Yanambaka

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 Function (PUF) is a hardware security primitive with a desirable feature of low-cost. Based on the space of challenge-response pairs (CRPs), it has two categories:weak PUF and strong PUF. Though designing a reliable and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Jianrong Yao , Lihui Pang , Zhi Zhang , Wei Yang , Anmin Fu , Yansong Gao