Paper 2012/662 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/662 ↗
Asynchronous Physical Unclonable Functions – AsyncPUF
Abstract
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) exploit the physical characteristics of silicon and provide an alternative to storing digital encryption keys in non-volatile memory. A PUF maps a unique set of digital inputs to a corresponding set of digital outputs. In this paper, the use of asynchronous logic and design techniques to implement PUFs is advocated for Asynchronous Physically Unclonable Functions (APUFs). A new method of using asynchronous rings to implement PUFs is described called ASYNCPUF which features inherent field programmability. It is both a novel and holistic PUF design compared to the existing state-of-the-art as it naturally addresses the two challenges facing PUFs to-date that prevent wide-spread adoption: robustness and entropy. Results of electrical simulation in a 90 nano-meter lithography process are presented and discussed.
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- History
- 2012-11-26: last updated
- 2012-11-26: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2012/662
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/662,
author = {Julian Murphy},
title = {Asynchronous Physical Unclonable Functions – AsyncPUF},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/662},
year = {2012},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/662}
}