A Survey on Silicon PUFs and Recent Advances in Ring Oscillator PUFs

Silicon physical unclonable function （PUF） is a popular hardware security primitive that exploits the intrinsic variation of IC manufacturing process to generate chip-unique information for various security related applications. For example, the PUF information can be used as a chip identifier, a se...

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Published inJournal of computer science and technology Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 664 - 678
Main Author 张吉良 屈钢 吕勇强 周强
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.07.2014
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence
Computer information security
Computer Science
Data Structures and Information Theory
Hardware
IC制造
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Integrated circuits
Manufacturing
Mathematical analysis
Oscillators
Random numbers
Security
Silicon
Software Engineering
State of the art
Survey
Theory of Computation
应用程序
环形振荡器
硅
硬件安全
聚氨酯泡沫
进展综述
随机数产生器
hardware security
physical unclonable function
VLSI
trusted IC
FPGA
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ISSN1000-9000
1860-4749
DOI10.1007/s11390-014-1458-1

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Summary:Silicon physical unclonable function （PUF） is a popular hardware security primitive that exploits the intrinsic variation of IC manufacturing process to generate chip-unique information for various security related applications. For example, the PUF information can be used as a chip identifier, a secret key, the seed for a random number generator, or the response to a given challenge. Due to the unpredictability and irreplicability of IC manufacturing variation, silicon PUF has emerged as a promising hardware security primitive and gained a lot of attention over the past few years. In this article, we first give a survey on the current state-of-the-art of silicon PUFs, then analyze known attacks to PUFs and the countermeasures. After that we discuss PUF-based applications, highlight some recent research advances in ring oscillator PUFs, and conclude with some challenges and opportunities in PUF research and applications.
Bibliography:Silicon physical unclonable function （PUF） is a popular hardware security primitive that exploits the intrinsic variation of IC manufacturing process to generate chip-unique information for various security related applications. For example, the PUF information can be used as a chip identifier, a secret key, the seed for a random number generator, or the response to a given challenge. Due to the unpredictability and irreplicability of IC manufacturing variation, silicon PUF has emerged as a promising hardware security primitive and gained a lot of attention over the past few years. In this article, we first give a survey on the current state-of-the-art of silicon PUFs, then analyze known attacks to PUFs and the countermeasures. After that we discuss PUF-based applications, highlight some recent research advances in ring oscillator PUFs, and conclude with some challenges and opportunities in PUF research and applications.
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physical unclonable function, hardware security, trusted IC, VLSI, FPGA
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ISSN:1000-9000
1860-4749
DOI:10.1007/s11390-014-1458-1