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 the most dense FPGA-compatible PUF ever reported in the literature, allowing th...
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have become ubiquitous as part of the emerging cryptographic algorithms. Strong PUFs are also predominantly addressed as the suitable variant for lightweight device authentication and strong single-use key gener...
Electronic money (e-money or e-Cash) is the digital representation of physical banknotes augmented by added use cases of online and remote payments. This paper presents a novel, anonymous e-money transaction protocol, built based on physical unclonab...
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have firmly established themselves as dynamic platforms for the implementation of physical unclonable functions (PUFs). Their intrinsic reconfigurability and profound implications for enhancing hardware security...
Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression plays a crucial role in many processes. In cells, it is mediated by diverse RNA-binding proteins. These proteins can influence mRNA stability, translation, and localization. The PUF protein family (P...
The environment-dependent feature of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) is capable of sensing environment changes. This paper presents an analysis and categorization of a variety of PUF sensors. Prior works have demonstrated that PUFs can be used a...
This study focuses on designing enhanced Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) based on SRAM devices and improving the security of cryptographic systems. Most SRAM PUFs are limited in their number of CRPs, which makes them vulnerable to enrollment a...
Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled battery-powered devices to transmit sensitive data, while presenting high power consumption and security issues. To address these challenges, adiabatic-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs) offer a promising...
The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has raised challenges in hardware security, as these devices often transmit sensitive data. Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide a promising approach to address such security concern...
This paper presents a novel reconfigurable SRAM CRP PUF that can achieve high reliability and randomness. In conventional reconfigurable SRAM CRP PUFs, imprecise timing control can produce a biased response output, which is typically attributed to mi...
Puf-A, a nucleolar Puf domain protein, is required for ribosome biogenesis. A study of Puf-A in zebrafish has shown that Puf-A is highly expressed in primordial germ cells (PGCs) and participates in PGC development. However, it remains unclear how Pu...
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are promising security primitives for resource-constrained IoT devices. A critical aspect of PUF security research is to identify all potential security risks. This information about vulnerabilities is beneficial...
Traditional authentication techniques, such as cryptographic solutions, are vulnerable to various attacks occurring on session keys and data. Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-based PUFs are introduced a...
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are primitives that are designed to leverage naturally occurring variations to produce a random bitstring. Current PUF designs are typically implemented in silicon or utilize variations found in commercial off-the...
Because the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) requires technology that transfers information between objects without human intervention, the core of IoT security will be secure authentication between devices or between devices and servers....
Hardware acceleration of cryptography algorithms represents an emerging approach to obtain benefits in terms of speed and side-channel resistance compared to software implementations. In addition, a hardware implementation can provide the possibility...
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware-based security primitives that can produce unique digital identifiers from electronic devices. They are particularly useful for Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to their low cost and ability...
As Internet of Things (IoT) devices have evolved, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) have become a popular solution for hardware security. In particular, memristor devices are receiving attention as suitable candidates for reliable PUFs because the...
The rapid advancement of technology has led to the pervasive presence of electronic devices in our lives, enabling convenience and connectivity. Cryptography offers solutions, but vulnerabilities persist due to physical attacks like malware. This led...
Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) has empowered a wide variety of automation industries. Aiming at the current light-weight RFID encryption scheme with limited information protection methods, combined with the physical unclonable funct...
Improving the security of electronic devices that support innovative critical services (digital administrative services, e-health, e-shopping, and on-line banking) is essential to lay the foundations of a secure digital society. Security schemes base...
Since image recognition systems use image data acquired by image sensors for analysis by AI technology, an important security issue is guaranteeing the authenticity of data transmitted from image sensors to successfully perform inference using AI. Th...
In this work we propose a novel implementation on recent Xilinx FPGA platforms of a PUF architecture based on the NAND SR-latch (referred to as NAND-PUF in the following) which achieves an extremely low resource usage with very good overall performan...
Security is essential in sensor nodes which acquire and transmit sensitive data. However, the constraints of processing, memory and power consumption are very high in these nodes. Cryptographic algorithms based on symmetric key are very suitable for...
Silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (sPUFs) are one of the security primitives and state-of-the-art topics in hardware-oriented security and trust research. This paper presents an efficient and dynamic ring oscillator PUFs (d-ROPUFs) technique to i...
Low-power and secure crypto-devices are in crucial demand for the current emerging technology of the Internet of Things (IoT). In nanometer CMOS technology, the static and dynamic power consumptions are in a very critical challenge. Therefore, the Fi...
As one of the fundamental elements of the fingerprints of integrated circuit chips, static random-access memory based physical unclonable function (SRAM PUF) has been regarded as an attractive option for hardware security circuits. Commercial SRAM ch...
This paper introduces a novel and efficient physical unclonable function (PUF) extraction method for SRAM. The proposed one-layer convolution scheme is based on a convolution operation, which significantly enhances the reliability of the PUF. To furt...
Protecting IoT (Internet of Things) devices against attacks is essential due to the rapid increase in connected devices. This is particularly challenging for lightweight devices with limited hardware capacity, making computationally intensive encrypt...
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a cryptographic primitive that exploit the unique physical characteristics of Integrated Circuits (ICs). A PUF can be modeled as a black-box challenge–response system. The number and size of challenge&...
Secret key leakage in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a high security risk especially when sensor nodes are deployed in hostile environment and physically accessible to attackers. With nowadays semi/fully-invasive attack techniques attackers can...
Due to the limited payload and power of drones, the computational overhead, storage overhead and communication overhead that can be used for secure communication are restricted, making it difficult to apply some complex but fairly secure authenticati...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an emerging technology employed in some crucial applications. However, limited resources and physical exposure to attackers make security a challenging issue for a WSN. Ring oscillator-based physical unclonable fun...
Using the nematode C. elegans germline as a model system, we previously reported that PUF-8 (a PUF RNA-binding protein) and LIP-1 (a dual-specificity phosphatase) repress sperm fate at 20 °C and the dedifferentiation of spermatocytes into mitotic...
This work proposes a methodology to estimate the statistical distribution of the probability that a 6T bit-cell starts up to a given logic value in SRAM memories for PUF applications. First, the distribution is obtained experimentally in a 65-nm CMOS...
The Controller Area Network (CAN) is a bus protocol widely used in Electronic control Units (ECUs) to communicate between various subsystems in vehicles. Insecure CAN networks can allow attackers to control information between vital vehicular subsyst...
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are used as low-cost cryptographic primitives in device authentication and secret key creation. SRAM-PUFs are well-known as entropy sources; nevertheless, due of non-deterministic noise environment during the po...
The main issue of ring oscillator physical unclonable functions (RO-PUF) is the existence of unstable ROs in response to environmental variations. The RO pairs with close frequency differences tend to contribute bit flips, reducing the reliability. R...
Physical unclonable function (PUF), a cryptographic primitive, has recently been used in protocol design because it can ensure a tamper-evident feature. In many PUF-based protocol schemes, helper data algorithms (HDA) or fuzzy extractors (FE) are use...
Physical unclonable function (PUF), a hardware-efficient approach, has drawn a lot of attention in the security research community for exploiting the inevitable manufacturing variability of integrated circuits (IC) as the unique fingerprint of each I...
A secure and effective authentication and communication scheme between users and underwater sensors plays an important role in improving the detection and utilization of marine resources in underwater acoustic networks (UANs). However, due to the ene...
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are crucial for enhancing cybersecurity by providing unique, intrinsic identifiers for electronic devices, thus ensuring their authenticity and preventing unauthorized cloning. The SRAM-PUF, characterized by its...
The security of web applications in an enterprise is of paramount importance. To strengthen the security of applications, the identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities through appropriate countermeasures becomes imperative. The Open Web Applic...
In recent times, the advent of innovative technological paradigms like the Internet of Things has paved the way for numerous applications that enhance the quality of human life. A remarkable application of IoT that has emerged is the Internet of Vehi...
The rapid convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and 5G communication has positioned extended reality (XR) as a core technology bridging the physical and virtual worlds. Encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR)...
Consumer electronics manufacturers have been incorporating support for 4G/5G communication technologies into many electronic devices. Thus, highly capable Internet of Things (IoT)-ready versions of electronic devices are being purchased which will ev...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is an emerging industry that offers convenient services for humans due to the high mobility and flexibility of drones. The IoD substantially enhances human life by enabling diverse drone applications across various domain...
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is one of the critical technologies of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), which consists of sensors, actuators at the edge, and servers. In order to solve the security and availability problems regarding c...
Modern cryptography attributes the security of a cryptographic system to the security of the key. How to securely distribute the key has always been a bottleneck in key management. This paper proposes a secure group key agreement scheme for multiple...
Cybersecurity is a challenge in the utilization of IoT devices. One of the main security functions that we need for IoT devices is authentication. In this work, we used physical unclonable function (PUF) technology to propose a lightweight authentica...
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