Review of error correction for PUFs and evaluation on state-of-the-art FPGAs

M Hiller, L Kürzinger, G Sigl - Journal of cryptographic engineering, 2020 - Springer
Efficient error correction and key derivation is a prerequisite to generate secure and reliable
keys from PUFs. The most common methods can be divided into linear schemes and pointer …

Secure key generation from biased PUFs

R Maes, V Van Der Leest, E Van Der Sluis… - … and Embedded Systems …, 2015 - Springer
PUF-based key generators have been widely considered as a root-of-trust in digital systems.
They typically require an error-correcting mechanism (eg based on the code-offset method) …

Secure key generation from biased PUFs: extended version

R Maes, V van der Leest, E van der Sluis… - Journal of Cryptographic …, 2016 - Springer
When the applied PUF in a PUF-based key generator does not produce full entropy
responses, information about the derived key material is leaked by code-offset helper data. If …

Efficient PUF-based key generation in FPGAs using per-device configuration

MA Usmani, S Keshavarz, E Matthews… - … Transactions on very …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable systems often require secret keys to encrypt and decrypt data. Applications
requiring high security commonly generate keys based on physical unclonable functions …

Entropy loss in PUF-based key generation schemes: The repetition code pitfall

P Koeberl, J Li, A Rajan, W Wu - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the promising usages of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) is to generate
cryptographic keys from PUFs for secure storage of key material. This usage has attractive …

Soft decision error correction for compact memory-based PUFs using a single enrollment

V Van der Leest, B Preneel, E Van der Sluis - International Workshop on …, 2012 - Springer
Secure storage of cryptographic keys in hardware is an essential building block for high
security applications. It has been demonstrated that Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) …

A novel ultra-compact fpga puf: The dd-puf

R Della Sala, D Bellizia, G Scotti - Cryptography, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a novel ultra-compact Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)
architecture and its FPGA implementation. The proposed Delay Difference PUF (DD-PUF) is …

Combined modeling and side channel attacks on strong PUFs

A Mahmoud, U Rührmair, M Majzoobi… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2013 - eprint.iacr.org
Abstract Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have established themselves in the scientific
literature, and are also gaining ground in commercial applications. Recently, however …

Programmable access-controlled and generic erasable PUF design and its applications

C Jin, W Burleson, M van Dijk, U Rührmair - Journal of Cryptographic …, 2022 - Springer
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) have not only been suggested as a new key storage
mechanism, but—in the form of so-called strong PUFs—also as cryptographic primitives in …

Overview of PUF-based hardware security solutions for the Internet of Things

B Halak, M Zwolinski, MS Mispan - 2016 IEEE 59th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of numerous inter-connected resource-constrained
devices such as sensors nodes and actuators, which are linked to the Internet. By 2020 it is …