Robust key extraction from physical uncloneable functions

  • Authors:
  • B. Škorić;P. Tuyls;W. Ophey

  • Affiliations:
  • Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACNS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Physical Uncloneable Functions (PUFs) can be used as a cost-effective means to store key material in an uncloneable way. Due to the fact that the key material is obtained by performing measurements on a physical system, noise is inevitably present in each readout. In this paper we present a number of methods that improve the robustness of bit-string extraction from noisy PUF measurements in general, and in particular for optical PUFs. We describe a practical implementation in the case of optical PUFs and show experimental results.