Soft decision helper data algorithm for SRAM PUFs

  • Authors:
  • Roel Maes;Pim Tuyls;Ingrid Verbauwhede

  • Affiliations:
  • ESAT, SCD, COSIC and IBBT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium;Intrinsic-ID, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;ESAT, SCD, COSIC and IBBT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we propose the idea of using soft decision information in helper data algorithms (RDA). We derive and verify a distribution for the responses of SRAM-based physically unclonable functions (PUFs) and show that soft decision information becomes available without loss in min-entropy of the fuzzy secret. This significantly improves the implementation overhead of using an SRAM PUF + RDA for cryptographic key generation compared to previous constructions.