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A survey on the susceptibility of PUFs to invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks: challenges and opportunities for future directions

A survey on the susceptibility of PUFs to invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks: challenges and opportunities for future directions
A survey on the susceptibility of PUFs to invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks: challenges and opportunities for future directions
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are considered to be a promising technology that provides a hardware root-of-trust for integrated circuit (IC) applications. PUFs exploit the intrinsic process variations that map a set of challenges to a set of responses. The intrinsic process variations are caused by uncontrollable deviations in the IC manufacturing process, which are unique and random from die to die and wafer to wafer. As the PUF output is device-specific, PUFs can, therefore, be used in IC identification and authentication, and cryptographic key generation. Nevertheless, many different successful attack techniques have already revealed vulnerabilities in certain PUFs, including invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks. In this work, we survey some of the known attacks on PUFs. We also survey the countermeasures to these types of attack presented in recent literature, and finally, discuss the future challenges. Through this survey, the susceptibility of PUFs to attacks is highlighted and this information may be used to improve the quality of future PUF-based application designs.
Physical unclonable function, invasive, noninvasive, semi-invasive
0218-1266
Mispan, Mohd Syafiq
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Halak, Basel
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Zwolinski, Mark
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Mispan, Mohd Syafiq, Halak, Basel and Zwolinski, Mark (2021) A survey on the susceptibility of PUFs to invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks: challenges and opportunities for future directions. Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 30 (11), [2130009]. (doi:10.1142/S0218126621300099).

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Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are considered to be a promising technology that provides a hardware root-of-trust for integrated circuit (IC) applications. PUFs exploit the intrinsic process variations that map a set of challenges to a set of responses. The intrinsic process variations are caused by uncontrollable deviations in the IC manufacturing process, which are unique and random from die to die and wafer to wafer. As the PUF output is device-specific, PUFs can, therefore, be used in IC identification and authentication, and cryptographic key generation. Nevertheless, many different successful attack techniques have already revealed vulnerabilities in certain PUFs, including invasive, semi-invasive and noninvasive attacks. In this work, we survey some of the known attacks on PUFs. We also survey the countermeasures to these types of attack presented in recent literature, and finally, discuss the future challenges. Through this survey, the susceptibility of PUFs to attacks is highlighted and this information may be used to improve the quality of future PUF-based application designs.

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A Survey on the Susceptibility of PUFs to Invasive, Semi-Invasive and Noninvasive Attacks Challenges and Opportunities for Future Directions - Accepted Manuscript
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 January 2021
Published date: 10 March 2021
Keywords: Physical unclonable function, invasive, noninvasive, semi-invasive

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Local EPrints ID: 448847
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448847
ISSN: 0218-1266
PURE UUID: 1a5a18e0-b0ea-42f5-b572-b030a91af189
ORCID for Basel Halak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-7226
ORCID for Mark Zwolinski: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2230-625X

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Date deposited: 06 May 2021 16:33
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 06:31

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Author: Mohd Syafiq Mispan
Author: Basel Halak ORCID iD
Author: Mark Zwolinski ORCID iD

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