SREE VIDYANIKETHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(AUTONOMOUS)
SREE SAINATH NAGAR, A . RANGAMPET-517 102

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MTECH[VLSI]
PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

ABSTRACT

Mobile and embedded devices are becoming ubiquitous, interconnected platforms for
everyday tasks. Many such tasks require the mobile device to securely authenticate and be
authenticated by another party and/or securely handle private information. The current best
practice for providing such a secure memory or authentication source in such a mobile system
is to place a secret key in a non volatile electrically programmable read only memory or battery
backed static random access memory and use hard ware cryptographic operations such as
digital signatures. This approach is expensive both in terms of design area and power
consumption. In addition such non-volatile memory is often vulnerable to invasive attack
mechanisms. Protection against such attacks requires the use of active temper
detection/prevention circuitry which must be continually powered.

Physical unclonable functions (PUF’s) are a promising innovative primitive that are used
for authentication and secret key storage without the requirement of secure EEPROMs and
other expensive hardware described above. PUFs derive a secret from the physical
characteristics of the integrated circuit. We discuss a PUF that uses the innate manufacturing
variability of gate delays as a physical characteristic from which a secret can be derived.

KEYWORDS: PUF, authentication,secret key,EEPROM

Submitted by Under the supervision of

D.SUNAYANA Mr.G.C.MADHU
M-Tech, VLSI Assistant professor

18121D5704 Dept. of ECE