Silicon physical random functions
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Physical unclonable functions for device authentication and secret key generation
Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
FPGA Intrinsic PUFs and Their Use for IP Protection
CHES '07 Proceedings of the 9th international workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
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The bistable ring physical(ly) unclonable function (BR-PUF) is a novel electrical intrinsic PUF design for physical cryptography. FPGA prototyping has provided a proof-of-concept, showing that the BR-PUF could be a promising candidate for strong PUFs. However, due to the limitations (device resources, placement and routing) of FPGA prototyping, the effectiveness of a practical ASIC implementation of the BR-PUF could not be validated. This paper characterizes the BR-PUF further through transistor-level simulations. Based on process variation, mismatch, and noise models provided or suggested by industry, these simulations are able to provide predictions on the figures-of-merit of ASIC implementations of the BR-PUF. This paper also suggests a more secure way of using the BR-PUF based on its supply voltage sensitivity.