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Hardware-based security primitives have become critical to enhancing information security in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) utilize the inherent variations in the manufacturing process to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Min Wang , Chuanpeng Jiang , Zhaohao Wang , Zhengyi Hou , Zhongkui Zhang , Yuanfu Zhao , Hongxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao

In the evolving landscape of IoT ecosystem, distinguishing between legitimate and compromised devices is a critical challenge. This research investigates the effectiveness of hardware performance counter (HPC)-derived signatures' uniqueness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Saeed Alshehhi

More and more companies' Intellectual Property (IP) is being integrated into Neural Network (NN) models. This IP has considerable value for companies and, therefore, requires adequate protection. For example, an attacker might replicate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Daniel Dorfmeister , Flavio Ferrarotti , Bernhard Fischer , Martin Schwandtner , Hannes Sochor

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are emerging as promising security primitives for IoT devices, providing device fingerprints based on physical characteristics. Despite their strengths, PUFs are vulnerable to machine learning (ML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Gaoxiang Li , Yu Zhuang

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

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been shown to be a highly promising solution for enabling high security systems tailored for low-power devices. Commonly, PUFs are utilised to generate cryptographic keys on-the-fly, replacing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Hongming Fei , Owen Millwood , Gope Prosanta , Jack Miskelly , Biplab Sikdar

Modern system-in-package (SiP) platforms increasingly adopt reconfigurable interposers to enable plug-and-play chiplet integration across heterogeneous multi-vendor ecosystems. However, this flexibility introduces severe trust challenges,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ishraq Tashdid , Tasnuva Farheen , Sazadur Rahman

Embedded software used in industrial systems frequently relies on data that ensures the correct and efficient operation of these systems. Thus, companies invest considerable resources in fine-tuning this data, making it their valuable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bernhard Fischer , Daniel Dorfmeister , Flavio Ferrarotti , Manuel Penz , Michael Kargl , Martina Zeinzinger , Florian Eibensteiner

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

Physical unclonable functions (PUF) in silicon exploit die-to-die manufacturing variations during fabrication for uniquely identifying each die. Since it is practically a hard problem to recreate exact silicon features across dies, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Baibhab Chatterjee , Debayan Das , Shreyas Sen

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) serve as lightweight, hardware-intrinsic entropy sources widely deployed in IoT security applications. However, delay-based PUFs are vulnerable to Machine Learning Attacks (MLAs), undermining their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Hongming Fei , Zilong Hu , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Hardware security has been a key concern in modern information technologies. Especially, as the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices grows rapidly, to protect the device security with low-cost security primitives becomes essential,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Xinrui Guo , Xiaoyang Ma , Franz Muller , Kai Ni , Thomas Kampfe , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Xueqing Li

Traditional authentication in radio-frequency (RF) systems enable secure data communication within a network through techniques such as digital signatures and hash-based message authentication codes (HMAC), which suffer from key recovery…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Baibhab Chatterjee , Debayan Das , Shovan Maity , Shreyas Sen

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have emerged as a promising solution to identify and authenticate Integrated Circuits (ICs). In this paper, we propose a novel NAND-based Set-Reset (SR) Flip-flop (FF) PUF design for security enclosures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Rohith Prasad Challa , Sheikh Ariful Islam , Srinivas Katkoori

Lightweight authentication is essential for resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT). Implementable with low resource and operable with low power, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have the potential as hardware primitives for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Zhuang , Gaoxiang Li

This paper provides a proof of concept for using SRAM based Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to generate private keys for IoT devices. PUFs are utilized, as there is inadequate protection for secret keys stored in the memory of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ashwija Reddy Korenda , Fatemeh Afghah , Bertrand Cambou , Christopher Philabaum

INTRODUCTION: The proliferation of the amalgamation of IoT and edge computing has increased the demand for decentralised trust and security mechanisms capable of operating across heterogeneous and resource-limited devices. Approaches such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Khandoker Ashik Uz Zaman , Mahdi H. Miraz , Mohammed N. M. Ali

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

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

The exponentially increasing number of ubiquitous wireless devices connected to the Internet in Internet of Things (IoT) networks highlights the need for a new paradigm of data flow management in such large-scale networks under software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Afghah , Bertrand Cambou , Masih Abedini , Sherali Zeadally