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On the Systematic Drift of Physically Unclonable Functions Due to Aging

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André Schaller,

Boris Škorić,

Stefan KatzenbeisserAuthors Info & Claims

TrustED '15: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2808414.2808417

Published: 16 October 2015 Publication History

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In recent years Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been proposed as a promising building block for security related scenarios like key storage and authentication. PUFs are physical systems and as such their responses are inherently noisy, precluding a straightforward derivation of cryptographic key material from raw PUF measurements. To overcome this drawback, Fuzzy Extractors are used to eliminate the noise and guarantee robust outputs. A special type are Reverse Fuzzy Extractors, shifting the computational load of error correction towards a computationally powerful verifier. However, the Reverse Fuzzy Extractor reveals error patterns to any eavesdropper, which may cause privacy issues (if the PUF key is drifting, the error pattern is linkable to the identity) and even security problems (if the noise is data-dependent and multiple protocol transcripts can be linked to the same user). In this work we evaluate the effects of aging on popular PUF implementations and investigate its impact on the security properties of the Reverse Fuzzy Extractor.

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Schaller AXiong WAnagnostopoulos NSaleem MGabmeyer SSkoric BKatzenbeisser SSzefer J(2019)Decay-Based DRAM PUFs in Commodity DevicesIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10.1109/TDSC.2018.282229816:3(462-475)Online publication date: 1-May-2019
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Schaller AStanko TSkoric BKatzenbeisser S(2018)Eliminating Leakage in Reverse Fuzzy ExtractorsIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security10.1109/TIFS.2017.277450013:4(954-964)Online publication date: Apr-2018
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On the Systematic Drift of Physically Unclonable Functions Due to Aging
1. Hardware
  1. Integrated circuits
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Error handling and recovery

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Schaller AXiong WAnagnostopoulos NSaleem MGabmeyer SSkoric BKatzenbeisser SSzefer J(2019)Decay-Based DRAM PUFs in Commodity DevicesIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10.1109/TDSC.2018.282229816:3(462-475)Online publication date: 1-May-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2018.2822298
Schaller AStanko TSkoric BKatzenbeisser S(2018)Eliminating Leakage in Reverse Fuzzy ExtractorsIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security10.1109/TIFS.2017.277450013:4(954-964)Online publication date: Apr-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2017.2774500
Xiong WSchaller AAnagnostopoulos NSaleem MGabmeyer SKatzenbeisser SSzefer J(2016)Run-Time Accessible DRAM PUFs in Commodity DevicesCryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 201610.1007/978-3-662-53140-2_21(432-453)Online publication date: 4-Aug-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53140-2_21

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