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Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are hardware-oriented primitives that exploit manufacturing variations to generate a unique identity for a physical system. Recent advancements showed how DRAM can be exploited to implement PUFs. DRAM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Fatemeh Najafi , Masoud Kaveh , Mohammad Reza Mosavi , Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti

A unique set of characteristics are packed in emerging nonvolatile reduction-oxidation (redox)-based resistive switching memories (ReRAMs) such as their underlying stochastic switching processes alongside their intrinsic highly nonlinear…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Jeeson Kim , Taimur Ahmed , Hussein Nili , Jiawei Yang , Doo Seok Jeong , Paul Beckett , Sharath Sriram , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Omid Kavehei

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

Strong physical unclonable function (PUF) is a promising solution for device authentication in resourceconstrained applications but vulnerable to machine learning attacks. In order to resist such attack, many defenses have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jiliang Zhang , Chaoqun Shen

Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions (QPUFs) offer a physically grounded approach to secure authentication, extending the capabilities of classical PUFs. This review covers their theoretical foundations and key implementation challenges -…

The lack of stability is one of the major limitations that constrains PUF from being put in widespread practical use. In this paper, we propose a weak PUF and a strong PUF that are both completely stable with 0% intra-distance. These PUFs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Wei-Che Wang , Yair Yona , Suhas Diggavi , Puneet Gupta

It is shown that a class of optical physical unclonable functions (PUFs) can be learned to arbitrary precision with arbitrarily high probability, even in the presence of noise, given access to polynomially many challenge-response pairs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Apollo Albright , Boris Gelfand , Michael Dixon

The current chapter aims at establishing a relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and hardware security. Such a connection between AI and software security has been confirmed and well-reviewed in the relevant literature. The main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Fatemeh Ganji , Shahin Tajik

The omnipresent digitalization trend has enabled a number of related malicious activities, ranging from data theft to disruption of businesses, counterfeiting of devices, and identity fraud, among others. Hence, it is essential to implement…

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), physical objects that are practically unclonable because of their andom and uncontrollable manufacturing variations, are becoming increasingly popular as security primitives and unique identifiers in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 E. Marakis , U. Rührmair , M. Lachner , R. Uppu , B. Škorić , P. W. H. Pinkse

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

We study reinforcement learning (RL) with linear function approximation. Existing algorithms for this problem only have high-probability regret and/or Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) sample complexity guarantees, which cannot guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jiafan He , Dongruo Zhou , Quanquan Gu

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Mohammad Mohammadinodoushan

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…

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) involve challenging practical applications of error-correcting codes (ECCs), requiring extremely low failure rates on the order of $10^{-6}$ and below despite raw input bit error rates as high as 22%.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Marvin Rübenacke , Sebastian Cammerer , Michael Sullivan , Alexander Keller

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) exploit the intrinsic complexity and irreproducibility of physical systems to generate secret information. PUFs have the potential to provide fundamentally higher security than traditional cryptographic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-12 Omid Kavehei , Chun Hosung , Damith Ranasinghe , Stan Skafidas

With a view to managing the increasing traffic in computer networks, round robin arbiter has been proposed to work with packet switching system to have increased speed in providing access and scheduling. Round robin arbiter is a doorway to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Arnab Paul , Mamdudul Haque Khan , M. Muktadir Rahman , Tanvir Zaman Khan , Prajoy Podder , Md. Yeasir Akram Khan

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

A Physical unclonable functions (PUF), alike a fingerprint, exploits manufacturing randomness to endow each physical item with a unique identifier. One primary PUF application is the secure derivation of volatile cryptographic keys using a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yansong Gao , Yang Su , Lei Xu , Damith C. Ranasinghe

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