A Differential Public PUF Design for Lightweight Authentication
Conference: SMACD / PRIME 2021 - International Conference on SMACD and 16th Conference on PRIME
07/19/2021 - 07/22/2021 at online
Proceedings: SMACD / PRIME 2021
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Duan, Shengyu (School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China & State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Sai, Gaole (Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & CAS Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Intelligence-Synergy Systems, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China)
Abstract:
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have emerged as a promising primitive to provide a hardware keyless security mechanism for integrated circuit applications. Public PUFs (PPUFs) address the crucial PUF vulnerability of requiring databases to store the secrete reference information. This paper investigates one of the PPUF families, differential PPUF (dPPUF), which exploits complexly interacted logic to create time gap between actual execution and simulation, and to prevent simulation attacks. Conventional dPPUFs have high costs. We observe the repressers have large impact on simulation time, but take a great proportion in current dPPUF structure. We thereby present a represser network with specially designed interconnection and shared logic, to maintain a high circuit complexity and to reduce the area cost. We show the proposed dPPUF has similar resilience over simulation attacks as the conventional design. Area cost can be reduced by up to 44%, and thus the proposed design can be used for lightweight authentication.