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Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Raju Dhakal , Prashant Shekhar , Laxima Niure Kandel

In order to shed more light on how RowHammer affects modern and future devices at the circuit-level, we first present an experimental characterization of RowHammer on 1580 DRAM chips (408x DDR3, 652x DDR4, and 520x LPDDR4) from 300 DRAM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jeremie S. Kim , Minesh Patel , A. Giray Yaglikci , Hasan Hassan , Roknoddin Azizi , Lois Orosa , Onur Mutlu

With the rapid development of the image generation technologies, the malicious abuses of the GAN-generated fingerprint images poses a significant threat to the public safety in certain circumstances. Although the existing universal deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hui Miao , Yuanfang Guo , Yunhong Wang

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

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are potential security blocks to generate unique and more secure keys in low-cost cryptographic applications. Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) has been proposed as one of the promising candidates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-02 B. M. S. Bahar Talukder , Biswajit Ray , Domenic Forte , Md Tauhidur Rahman

RowHammer stands out as a prominent example, potentially the pioneering one, showcasing how a failure mechanism at the circuit level can give rise to a significant and pervasive security vulnerability within systems. Prior research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ranyang Zhou , Jacqueline T. Liu , Nakul Kochar , Sabbir Ahmed , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Shaahin Angizi

Browser fingerprinting is a stateless tracking technique that attempts to combine information exposed by multiple different web APIs to create a unique identifier for tracking users across the web. Over the last decade, trackers have abused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami , Umar Iqbal , Zubair Shafiq

Modern DRAM is vulnerable to read disturbance (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress) that significantly undermines the robust operation of the system. Repeatedly opening and closing a DRAM row (RowHammer) or keeping a DRAM row open for a long…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Haocong Luo , İsmail Emir Yüksel , Ataberk Olgun , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Onur Mutlu

This paper challenges the existing victim-focused counter-based RowHammer detection mechanisms by experimentally demonstrating a novel multi-sided fault injection attack technique called Threshold Breaker. This mechanism can effectively…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ranyang Zhou , Jacqueline Liu , Sabbir Ahmed , Nakul Kochar , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Shaahin Angizi

Adversarial-example-based fingerprinting approaches, which leverage the decision boundary characteristics of deep neural networks (DNNs) to craft fingerprints, have proven effective for model ownership protection. However, a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Guang Yang , Ziye Geng , Yihang Chen , Changqing Luo

We propose IrisFP, a novel adversarial-example-based model fingerprinting framework that enhances both uniqueness and robustness by leveraging multi-boundary characteristics, multi-sample behaviors, and fingerprint discriminative power…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ziye Geng , Guang Yang , Yihang Chen , Changqing Luo

The usage of technologically advanced devices has seen a boom in many domains, including education, automation, and healthcare; with most of the services requiring Internet connectivity. To secure a network, device identification plays key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Azam Che Idris , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is a tool which allows for authentication by utilizing distinct and random distortions in a received signal based on characteristics of the transmitter. We introduce a deep learning-based authentication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Justin McMillen , Gokhan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is becoming increasingly popular, especially in applications with constrained power, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to subtle manufacturing variations, wireless devices have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

Recent device fingerprinting approaches rely on deep learning to extract device-specific features solely from raw RF signals to identify, classify and authenticate wireless devices. One widely known issue lies in the inability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a promising solution for identity verification and asymmetric encryption. In this paper, a new Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) PUF-based protocol is presented to create a physical ReRAM PUF…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jack Garrard , John F. Hardy , Carlo daCunha , Mayank Bakshi

Device fingerprinting over the web has received much attention both by the research community and the commercial market a like. Almost all the fingerprinting features proposed to date depend on software run on the device. All of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Gabi Nakibly , Gilad Shelef , Shiran Yudilevich

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

Fingerprint recognition requires a minimal effort from the user, does not capture other information than strictly necessary for the recognition process, and provides relatively good performance. A critical step in fingerprint identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Amira Mohammad Abdel-Mawgoud Saleh

Deep-learning-based device fingerprinting has recently been recognized as a key enabler for automated network access authentication. Its robustness to impersonation attacks due to the inherent difficulty of replicating physical features is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub