A machine learning attacks resistant two stage physical unclonable functions design

Su, Haibo, Zwolinski, Mark and Halak, Basel (2018) A machine learning attacks resistant two stage physical unclonable functions design. In 2018 IEEE 3rd International Verification and Security Workshop, IVSW 2018. IEEE. pp. 52-55 . (doi:10.1109/IVSW.2018.8494839).

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Abstract

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been designed for many security applications such as identification, authentication of devices and key generation, especially for lightweight electronics. Traditional approaches to enhancing security, such as hash functions, may be expensive and resource dependent. However, modelling attacks using machine learning (ML) show the vulnerability of most PUFs. In this paper, a combination of a 32-bit current mirror and 16-bit arbiter PUFs in 65nm CMOS technology is proposed to improve resilience against modelling attacks. Both PUFs are vulnerable to machine learning attacks and we reduce the output prediction rate from 99.2% and 98.8% individually, to 60%.

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