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Towards a Unified Security Model for Physically Unclonable Functions

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Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2016 (CT-RSA 2016)

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The use of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) in cryptographic protocols attracted an increased interest over recent years. Since sound security analysis requires a concise specification of the alleged properties of the PUF, there have been numerous trials to provide formal security models for PUFs. However, all these approaches have been tailored to specific types of applications or specific PUF instantiations. For the sake of applicability, composability, and comparability, however, there is a strong need for a unified security model for PUFs (to satisfy, for example, a need to answer whether a future protocol requirements match a new and coming PUF realization properties).

In this work, we propose a PUF model which generalizes various existing PUF models and includes security properties that have not been modeled so far. We prove the relation between some of the properties, and also discuss the relation of our model to existing ones.

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    We do not limit the number of physical attacks the adversary can mount as defined in [17]. Instead, the pamter-resilience assures there is no extra information is leaked by the physical attacks.

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  1. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Frederik Armknecht

  2. NICT, Koganei, Japan

    Daisuke Moriyama

  3. TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  4. Google and Columbia University, New York, USA

    Moti Yung

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Armknecht, F., Moriyama, D., Sadeghi, AR., Yung, M. (2016). Towards a Unified Security Model for Physically Unclonable Functions. In: Sako, K. (eds) Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2016. CT-RSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29485-8_16

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