A new Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) construction is described, by treating silicon unique features extracted from PUF circuits as “genetic material” unique to each silicon, and recombining this chip-unique material in a way to obtain a combination of advantages not possible with the original PUF circuits, including altering PUF output statistics to better suit PUF-based key generation and ...

The characteristic novelty of what is generally meant by a “physical unclonable function” (PUF) is precisely defined, in order to supply a firm basis for security evaluations and the proposal of new security mechanisms. A PUF is defined as a hardware device which implements a physical function with an output value that changes with its argument. A PUF can be clonable, but a secure PUF must be u...

Physical unclonable functions (PUF), as hardware security primitives, exploit manufacturing randomness to extract instance-specific challenge (input) response (output) pairs (CRPs). Since its emergence, the community started pursuing a strong PUF primitive that is with large CRP space and resilient to modeling building attacks. A practical realization of a strong PUF is still challenging to dat...

In this work, we propose a systematic method to evaluate and compare the performance of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). The need for such a method is justified by the fact that various types of PUFs have been proposed so far. However, there is no common method that can fairly compare them in terms of their performances. We first propose three generic dimensions of PUF measurements. We the...

The increasing interest in physically unclonable functions or PUFs and in PUF-based security applications desires a concrete and as formal as possible description of what a PUF is and which properties can be naturally expected. However, the wide and growing variety of different PUF and PUF-like proposals makes such a formalization attempt a nontrivial task. In this work we provide a starting po...

PUF proteins control both growth and differentiation in the C. elegans germ line. These conserved RNA-binding proteins inhibit expression of target mRNAs, either by repressing translation or promoting degradation. Previous studies showed that PUF-8, a PUF protein with striking similarity to human Pumilio, prevents return of primary spermatocytes to the mitotic cell cycle [Subramaniam, K. & Seyd...