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Due to the diverse and mobile nature of the deployment environment, smart commodity devices are vulnerable to various attacks which can grant unauthorized access to a rogue device in a large, connected network. Traditional digital…

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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

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

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

Detecting counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) in unreliable supply chains demands robust tracking and authentication. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) offer unique IC identifiers, but noise undermines their utility. This study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fairuz Shadmani Shishir , Md Mashfiq Rizvee , Tanvir Hossain , Tamzidul Hoque , Domenic Forte , Sumaiya Shomaji

Counterfeit products pose significant risks to public health and safety through infiltrating untrusted supply chains. Among numerous anti-counterfeiting techniques, leveraging inherent, unclonable microscopic irregularities of paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Anirudh Nakra , Nayeeb Rashid , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

The rapid expansion of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments has heightened security risks, as resource-constrained devices remain vulnerable to diverse cyberattacks. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saadat Izadi , Mahmood Ahmadi

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

Simple authentication protocols based on conventional physical unclonable function (PUF) are vulnerable to modeling attacks and other security threats. This paper proposes an arbiter PUF based on a linear feedback shift register…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yao Wang , Xue Mei , Zhengtai Chang , Wenbing Fan , Benqing Guo , Zhi Quan

Physical unclonable functions (PUF) extract secrets from randomness inherent in manufacturing processes. PUFs are utilized for basic cryptographic tasks such as authentication and key generation, and more recently, to realize key exchange…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Yansong Gao , Hua Ma , Geifei Li , Shaza Zeitouni , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

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

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are relatively new security primitives used for device authentication and device-specific secret key generation. In this paper we focus on SRAM-PUFs. The SRAM-PUFs enjoy uniqueness and randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Bin Chen , Tanya Ignatenko , Frans M. J. Willems , Roel Maes , Erik van der Sluis , Georgios Selimis

Secure group-oriented communication is crucial to a wide range of applications in Internet of Things (IoT). Security problems related to group-oriented communications in IoT-based applications placed in a privacy-sensitive environment have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Hongxiang Gu , Miodrag Potkonjak

As cloud-based quantum computing expands, securing access to quantum hardware is increasingly critical. We present an authentication protocol that leverages intrinsic quantum device properties to construct Quantum Physical Unclonable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Behnam Tonekaboni , Pranav Gokhale , Kaitlin N. Smith

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

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing attacks severely threaten Internet of Things (IoT) networks by allowing attackers to intercept, modify, or block communications. Traditional detection methods are insufficient due to high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Taimoor Ahmad , Anas Ali

Physical-layer authentication is a popular alternative to the conventional key-based authentication for internet of things (IoT) devices due to their limited computational capacity and battery power. However, this approach has limitations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Saud Khan , Chandra Thapa , Salman Durrani , Seyit Camtepe

The rise of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices has raised security concerns due to their vulnerability to cyberattacks. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are crucial in addressing these threats. Federated Learning (FL) offers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saadat Izadi , Mahmood Ahmadi

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide a streamlined solution for lightweight device authentication. Delay-based Arbiter PUFs, with their ease of implementation and vast challenge space, have received significant attention; however,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Hongming Fei , Owen Millwood , Prosanta Gope , Jack Miskelly , Biplab Sikdar

In this paper, we propose flash-based hardware security primitives as a viable solution to meet the security challenges of the IoT and specifically telehealth markets. We have created a novel solution, called the High and Low (HaLo) method,…

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