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As a well-known physical unclonable function that can provide huge number of challenge response pairs (CRP) with a compact design and fully compatibility with current electronic fabrication process, the arbiter PUF (APUF) has attracted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yansong Gao , Jianrong Yao , Lihui Pang , Zhi Zhang , Anmin Fu , Naixue Xiong , Hyoungshick Kim

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) exploit variations in the manufacturing process to derive bit sequences from integrated circuits, which can be used as secure cryptographic keys. Instead of storing the keys in an insecure, non-volatile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Sven Müelich , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

Physical unclonable functions(PUFs) provide a unique fingerprint to a physical entity by exploiting the inherent physical randomness. Gao et al. discussed the vulnerability of most current-day PUFs to sophisticated machine learning-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Kaushik Chakraborty , Mina Doosti , Yao Ma , Chirag Wadhwa , Myrto Arapinis , Elham Kashefi

In this work, we design and implement a strong physical uncloneable function from an array of individual resonant tunnelling diodes that were previously described to have a unique response when challenged. The system demonstrates the…

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are hardware structures in a physical system (e.g. semiconductor, crystals etc.) that are used to enable unique identification of the semiconductor or to secure keys for cryptographic processes. A PUF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Vladlen Galetsky , Soham Ghosh , Christian Deppe , Roberto Ferrara

The development of new anti-counterfeiting solutions is a constant challenge and involves several research fields. Much interest is devoted to systems that are impossible to clone, based on the Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) paradigm.…

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

Physical Unclonable Functions can be used for secure key generation in cryptographic applications. It is explained how methods from coding theory must be applied in order to ensure reliable key regeneration. Based on previous work, we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Sven Müelich , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert , Matthias Hiller , Georg Sigl

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…

In this letter, a physical unclonable function (PUF)-advanced encryption standard (AES)-PUF is proposed as a new PUF architecture by embedding an AES cryptographic circuit between two conventional PUF circuits to conceal their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Weize Yu , Jia Chen

As the Covid-19 pandemic grips the world, healthcare systems are being reshaped, where the e-health concepts become more likely to be accepted. Wearable devices often carry sensitive information from users which are exposed to security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Kavya Dayananda , Nima Karimian

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are lightweight cryptographic primitives for generating unique signatures from minuscule manufacturing variations. In this work, we present lightweight, area efficient and low power adaptive multi-bit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sudarshan Sharma , Dhruv Thapar , Nikhil Bhelave , Mrigank Sharad

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

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) enable physical tamper protection for high-assurance devices without needing a continuous power supply that is active over the entire lifetime of the device. Several methods for PUF-based tamper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Georg Maringer , Matthias Hiller

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

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) deployed on memristive crossbar arrays provide energy-efficient solutions for edge computing but are susceptible to physical attacks due to memristor nonvolatility. Recently, Rajendran et al. (IEEE Embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bijeet Basak , Nupur Patil , Kurian Polachan , Srinivas Vivek

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), as hardware security primitives, exploit manufacturing randomness to extract hardware instance-specific secrets. One of most popular structures is time-delay based Arbiter PUF attributing to large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Counterfeiting threatens human health, social equity, national security and global and local economies. Hardware-based cryptography that exploits physical unclonable functions (PUFs) provides the means for secure identification and…

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…

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…