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In this work, we present ioPUF+, which incorporates a novel Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) that generates unique fingerprints for Integrated Circuits (ICs) and the IoT nodes encompassing them. The proposed PUF generates device-specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dilli Babu Porlapothula , Pralay Chakrabarty , Ananya Lakshmi Ravi , Kurian Polachan

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

Malicious encryption techniques continue to evolve, bypassing conventional detection mechanisms that rely on static signatures or predefined behavioral rules. Spectral analysis presents an alternative approach that transforms system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Dominica Ayanara , Atticus Hillingworth , Jonathan Casselbury , Dominic Montague

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 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

A securely maintained key is the premise upon which data stored and transmitted by ubiquitously deployed resource limited devices, such as those in the Internet of Things (IoT), are protected. However, many of these devices lack a secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Yansong Gao , Yang Su , Wei Yang , Shiping Chen , Surya Nepal , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are gaining attention in the cryptography community because of the ability to efficiently harness the intrinsic variability in the manufacturing process. However, this means that they are noisy devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Xinhui Lai , Maksim Jenihhin , Georgios Selimis , Sven Goossens , Roel Maes , Kolin Paul

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

We present a secure communication system constructed using pairs of nonlinear photonic physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that harness physical chaos in integrated silicon micro-cavities. Compared to a large, electronically stored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Brian C. Grubel , Bryan T. Bosworth , Michael R. Kossey , A. Brinton Cooper , Mark A. Foster , Amy C. Foster

Recently, major progress has been made towards the realisation of quantum internet to enable a broad range of classically intractable applications. These applications such as delegated quantum computation require running a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mina Doosti , Niraj Kumar , Mahshid Delavar , Elham Kashefi

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based embedded systems have become mainstream in the last decade, often in security-sensitive applications. However, even with an authenticated hardware platform, compromised software can severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sneha Swaroopa , Venkata Sreekanth Balijabudda , Rajat Subhra Chakraborty , Indrajit Chakrabarti

In this paper, we consider the generation and utilization of helper data for physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that provide real-valued readout symbols. Compared to classical binary PUFs, more entropy can be extracted from each basic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Robert F. H. Fischer

Counterfeit products cause severe harm to public safety and health by penetrating untrusted supply chains. Numerous anti-counterfeiting techniques have been proposed, among which the use of inherent, unclonable irregularities of paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anirudh Nakra , Min Wu , Chau-Wai Wong

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are promising security primitives for resource-constrained network nodes. The XOR Arbiter PUF (XOR PUF or XPUF) is an intensively studied PUF invented to improve the security of the Arbiter PUF, probably…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Gaoxiang Li , Khalid T. Mursi , Ahmad O. Aseeri , Mohammed S. Alkatheiri , Yu Zhuang

With the rising numbers for IoT objects, it is becoming easier to penetrate counterfeit objects into the mainstream market by adversaries. Such infiltration of bogus products can be addressed with third-party-verifiable identification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shashank Tripathi , Volker Skwarek

We develop the uniform sparse Fast Fourier Transform (usFFT), an efficient, non-intrusive, adaptive algorithm for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients. The algorithm is an adaption of the sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Lutz Kämmerer , Daniel Potts , Fabian Taubert

In recent years, due to the trend in globalization, system integrators have had to deal with integrated circuit (IC)/intellectual property (IP) counterfeiting more than ever. These counterfeit hardware issues counterfeit hardware that have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Fatemeh Tehranipoor

Many password alternatives for web authentication proposed over the years, despite having different designs and objectives, all predominantly rely on the knowledge of some secret. This motivates us, herein, to provide the first detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Furkan Alaca , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) rely on sensor feedback to keep safety-critical processes within operational limits. This research presents a hardware-root-of-trust that embeds a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) at the measurement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ahmed Oun , Rishabh Das , Clay Hess , Aakriti Barat , Savas Kaya

Scale-invariance, good localization and robustness to noise and distortions are the main properties that a local feature detector should possess. Most existing local feature detectors find excessive unstable feature points that increase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Morteza Ghahremani , Yonghuai Liu , Bernard Tiddeman