Title
An Easy-to-Design PUF Based on a Single Oscillator: The Loop PUF
Abstract
This paper presents an easy to design Physically Unclonable Function (PUF). The proposed PUF implementation is a loop composed of $N$ identical and controllable delay chains which are serially assembled in a loop to create a single ring oscillator. The frequency discrepancies resulting from the oscillator driven by complementary combinations of the delay chains allows to characterize one device. The presented PUF, nicknamed the Loop PUF (LPUF), returns a frequency comparison of loops made of $N$ delay chains ($N\geq2$). The comparisons are done sequentially on the same structure. Unlike others PUFs based on delays, there is no specific routing constraints. Hence the LPUF is particularly flexible and easy to design. The basic use of the Loop PUF is to generate intrinsic device keys for cryptographic algorithms. It can also be used to generate challenge response pairs for simple authentication. Experiments have been carried out on CYCLONE II FPGAs to assess the performance of the LPUF, such as randomness, uniqueness and steadiness. They clearly show both the easiness of design and the quality level of the LPUF. The measurement time \emph{vs} steadiness, as well as resistance against side-channel and modeling attacks are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/DSD.2012.22
Digital System Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
easy-to-design puf,proposed puf implementation,loop puf,physically unclonable function,controllable delay chain,single ring oscillator,intrinsic device key,single oscillator,frequency comparison,cyclone ii fpgas,frequency discrepancy,delay chain,field programmable gate arrays,oscillators,authentication,fpga,asic,key generation,randomness,cryptography,puf
Key generation,Ring oscillator,Authentication,Computer science,Cryptography,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Application-specific integrated circuit,Physical unclonable function,Randomness
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2498-4
16
0.85
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zouha Cherif1333.15
Jean-Luc Danger279483.57
Sylvain Guilley3160.85
Lilian Bossuet433336.10