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A Survey of Security Attacks on Silicon Based Weak PUF Architectures

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Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2020)

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Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are popular hardware-based security primitives that can derive chip signatures from the inherent characteristics of ICs. Due to their assumed security and cost advantages, one important category of PUFs, so-called weak PUFs which is used in numerous security applications such as device ID generation, IP protection and secure key storage. Nevertheless, a number of recent works have been reported several attacks on weak PUFs architectures. This paper presents a brief survey of existing attacks on silicon-based weak PUF architectures with their detailed comparison and associated countermeasures.

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Yehoshuva, C., Raja Adhithan, R., Nalla Anandakumar, N. (2021). A Survey of Security Attacks on Silicon Based Weak PUF Architectures. In: Thampi, S.M., Wang, G., Rawat, D.B., Ko, R., Fan, CI. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1364. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0422-5_8

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