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Large quantities of random numbers are crucial in a wide range of applications. We have recently demonstrated that perpendicular nanopillar magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJs) can produce true random bits when actuated with short pulses.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Andre Dubovskiy , Troy Criss , Ahmed Sidi El Valli , Laura Rehm , Andrew D. Kent , Andrew Haas

We introduce a mathematical framework for simulating Hybrid Boolean Network (HBN) Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs, HBN-PUFs). We verify that the model is able to reproduce the experimentally observed PUF statistics for uniqueness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Noeloikeau Charlot , Daniel J. Gauthier , Daniel Canaday , Andrew Pomerance

A physical unclonable function (PUF), analogous to a human fingerprint, has gained an enormous amount of attention from both academia and industry. SRAM PUF is among one of the popular silicon PUF constructions that exploits random initial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Yansong Gao , Hua Ma , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Damith C. Ranasinghe

There has been a growing interest in fully integrating Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) for cryptographic primitives, or keyless encryption. Keyless primitives do not store key information during the entire encryption and decryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dina Ghanai Miandoab , Sareh Assiri , Joseph Mihaljevic , Bertrand Cambou

This paper introduces the concept of spin-orbit-torque-MRAM (SOT-MRAM) based physical unclonable function (PUF). The secret of the PUF is stored into a random state of a matrix of perpendicular SOT-MRAMs. Here, we show experimentally and…

We construct a strong PUF with provable security against ML attacks on both classical and quantum computers. The security is guaranteed by the cryptographic hardness of learning decryption functions of public-key cryptosystems, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiaodan Xi , Ge Li , Ye Wang , Yeonsoo Jeon , Michael Orshansky

Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is studied extensively with the focus of maximizing prediction accuracy given an overall parameter budget. Existing methods rely on uniform or heuristic non-uniform sparsity budgets which have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Aditya Kusupati , Vivek Ramanujan , Raghav Somani , Mitchell Wortsman , Prateek Jain , Sham Kakade , Ali Farhadi

True random number generators (TRNGs) are fundamental building blocks for many applications, such as cryptography, Monte Carlo simulations, neuromorphic computing, and probabilistic computing. While perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions…

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

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) have shown great promise as hardware sources for true random number generation (TRNG) due to their intrinsic stochastic switching behavior. However, practical deployment remains challenged by drift in…

In this paper, a new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) based on chaotic iterations is proposed. This method also combines the digits of two XORshifts PRNGs. The statistical properties of this new generator are improved: the generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang , Jacques M. Bahi

In this work, by employing a bitsliced data representation as building blocks of algorithms, we showcase the capability and scalability of our proposed method in a variety of PRNG methods in the category of block and stream ciphers. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Omid Hajihassani , Soroush Meghdadi Zanjani , Mohammadsina Kiarostami , Dara Rahmati , Saeid Gorgin

Modern computer scaling trends in pursuit of larger component counts and power efficiency have, unfortunately, lead to less reliable hardware and consequently soft errors escaping into application data ("silent data corruptions").…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Vishal Chandra Sharma , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Security has become a main concern for the smart grid to move from research and development to industry. The concept of security has usually referred to resistance to threats by an active or passive attacker. However, since smart meters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Masoud Kaveh , Mohammad Reza Mosavi , Diego Martin , Saeed Aghapour

The Click-though Rate (CTR) prediction task is a basic task in recommendation system. Most of the previous researches of CTR models built based on Wide \& deep structure and gradually evolved into parallel structures with different modules.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ri Su , Alphonse Houssou Hounye , Cong Cao , Muzhou Hou

The behavior of Internet applications is shaped by congestion dynamics at bottleneck links, yet data capturing application behavior across diverse bottleneck regimes remains scarce. Bridging this gap requires a data-generation substrate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jaber Daneshamooz , Satyandra Guthula , Jessica Nguyen , William Chen , Sanjay Chandrasekaran , Ankit Gupta , Arpit Gupta , Walter Willinger

Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) is the most essential component for polynomial multiplications used in lattice-based Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms such as Kyber, Dilithium, NTRU etc. However, side-channel attacks (SCA) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rourab Paul , Krishnendu Guha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Sponge hashing is a widely used class of cryptographic hash algorithms which underlies the current international hash function standard SHA-3. In a nutshell, a sponge function takes as input a bit-stream of any length and processes it via a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Joseph Carolan , Alexander Poremba

Standard deep neural network inference involves the computation of interleaved linear maps and nonlinear activation functions. Prior work for ultra-low latency implementations has hardcoded these operations inside FPGA lookup tables (LUTs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Marta Andronic , Jiawen Li , George A. Constantinides

With the emergence of 5G low latency applications, such as haptics and V2X, low complexity and low latency security mechanisms are sought. Promising lightweight mechanisms include physical unclonable functions (PUF) and secret key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Martin Reed , Leila Musavian