A Privacy-Preserving, Mutual PUF-Based Authentication Protocol

This paper describes an authentication protocol using a Hardware-Embedded Delay PUF called HELP. HELP derives randomness from within-die path delay variations that occur along the paths within a hardware implementation of a cryptographic primitive, such as AES or SHA-3. The digitized timing values w...

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Published in:Cryptography 2017-06, Vol.1 (1), p.3
Main Authors: Che, Wenjie, Martin, Mitchell, Pocklassery, Goutham, Kajuluri, Venkata, Saqib, Fareena, Plusquellic, Jim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authentication
Computer engineering
Cryptography
Delay
Digitization
Embedded systems
Hardware
International conferences
Privacy
Software
Trust
Wireless communications
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Summary:This paper describes an authentication protocol using a Hardware-Embedded Delay PUF called HELP. HELP derives randomness from within-die path delay variations that occur along the paths within a hardware implementation of a cryptographic primitive, such as AES or SHA-3. The digitized timing values which represent the path delays are stored in a database on a secure server (verifier) as an alternative to storing PUF response bitstrings. This enables the development of an efficient authentication protocol that provides both privacy and mutual authentication. The security properties of the protocol are analyzed using data collected from a set of Xilinx Zynq FPGAs.
ISSN:2410-387X
2410-387X
DOI:10.3390/cryptography1010003