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This paper presents a framework for securing blockchain-based IoT systems by integrating Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) within a Hyperledger Fabric environment. The proposed framework leverages PUFs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Daniel Commey , Sena Hounsinou , Garth V. Crosby

Silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC) builds on the demand for a low cost approach from established silicon-based manufacturing infrastructure traditionally built for electronics. Besides its natural abundance, silicon has desirable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 James Y. S. Tan , Shawn Xie Wu , Salih Yanikgonul , Chao Li , Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo

Advances in technology have enabled tremendous progress in the development of a highly connected ecosystem of ubiquitous computing devices collectively called the Internet of Things (IoT). Ensuring the security of IoT devices is a high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Vishalini R. Laguduva , Sheikh Ariful Islam , Sathyanarayanan Aakur , Srinivas Katkoori , Robert Karam

This article presents the first-ever blockchain which can simultaneously handle device and data security, which is important for the emerging Internet-of-Everything (IoE). This article presents a unique concept of blockchain that integrates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Saraju P. Mohanty , Venkata P. Yanambaka , Elias Kougianos , Deepak Puthal

We introduce a novel copy-protection method for industrial control software. With our method, a program executes correctly only on its target hardware and behaves differently on other machines. The hardware-software binding is based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Daniel Dorfmeister , Flavio Ferrarotti , Bernhard Fischer , Evelyn Haslinger , Rudolf Ramler , Markus Zimmermann

Digital watermarking methods are commonly used to safeguard digital media copyrights by confirming ownership and deterring unauthorized use. However, without reliable third-party oversight, these methods risk security vulnerabilities during…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xiaolong Xue , Guangyong Shang , Zhen Ma , Minghui Xu , Hechuan Guo , Kun Li , Xiuzhen Cheng

At present spoofing attacks via which biometric system is potentially vulnerable against a fake biometric characteristic, introduces a great challenge to recognition performance. Despite the availability of a broad range of presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Avantika Singh , Gaurav Jaswal , Aditya Nigam

The reliability of secure graphic verification, a key anti-counterfeiting tool, is undermined by poor image acquisition on smartphones. Uncontrolled user captures of these high-entropy patterns cause high false rejection rates, creating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Cas Steigstra , Sergey Milyaev , Shaodi You

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer ultra-broad optical bandwidths that enable unprecedented data throughputs for signal processing applications. Dynamic reconfigurability enables compensation of fabrication flaws and fluctuating…

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

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are used as low-cost cryptographic primitives in device authentication and secret key creation. SRAM-PUFs are well-known as entropy sources; nevertheless, due of non-deterministic noise environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Abdel Alheyasat , Gabriel Torrens , Sebastia A. Bota , Bartomeu Alorda

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) directly written with a femtosecond laser have shown great potential in many areas such as quantum information processing (QIP). Many applications, like photon-based quantum computing, demand the…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-23 Jun Guan , Xiang Liu , Adrian J. Menssen , Martin J. Booth

We address the problem of shoulder-surfing attacks on authentication schemes by proposing IllusionPIN (IPIN), a PIN-based authentication method that operates on touchscreen devices. IPIN uses the technique of hybrid images to blend two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Athanasios Papadopoulos , Toan Nguyen , Emre Durmus , Nasir Memon

Universal Circuits (UCs) offer a promising approach to hardware Intellectual Property (IP) obfuscation, leveraging cryptographic principles to hide both structure and function in a programmable logic fabric. Their adaptability makes them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zain Ul Abideen , Deepali Garg , Lawrence Pileggi , Samuel Pagliarini

The acronym IBIC (Ion Beam Induced Charge) was coined in early 1990's to indicate a scanning microscopy technique which uses MeV ion beams as probes to image the basic electronic properties of semiconductor materials and devices. Since…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-02 E. Vittone , Z. Pastuovic , P. Olivero , C. Manfredotti , M. Jaksic , A. Lo Giudice , F. Fizzotti , E. Colombo

Photonic technologies lack non-invasive monitoring tools to inspect the light inside optical waveguides. This is one of the main barriers to large scale of integration, even though photonic platforms are potentially ready to host several…

This paper explores the potential of synthetic physical Copy Detection Patterns (CDP) to improve the robustness of anti-counterfeiting systems. By leveraging synthetic physical CDP, we aim at enhancing security and cost-effectiveness across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Roman Chaban , Brian Pulfer , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Many commercially available memory chips are fabricated worldwide in untrusted facilities. Therefore, a counterfeit memory chip can easily enter into the supply chain in different formats. Deploying these counterfeit memory chips into an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 B. M. S. Bahar Talukder , Farah Ferdaus , Md Tauhidur Rahman

With current tools and technology, someone who has physical access to a chip can extract the detailed layout of the integrated circuit (IC). By using advanced visual imaging techniques, reverse engineering can reveal details that are meant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Maria I. Mera Collantes , Mohamed El Massad , Siddharth Garg

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide promising hardware security for IoT authentication, leveraging inherent randomness suitable for resource constrained environments. However, ML/DL modeling attacks threaten PUF security by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Joy Acharya , Smit Patel , Paawan Sharma , Mohendra Roy