FiberID: molecular-level secret for identification of things

Author

Zhen Chen ; Yongbo Zeng ; Hefferman, Gerald ; Yan Sun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

fYear

2014

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

88

Abstract

This paper describes a new physical unclonable function for identification, FiberID, which uses the molecular level Rayleigh backscatter pattern within a small section of telecommunication-grade optical fiber as a means of verification and identification. The verification process via FiberID is experimentally studied, and an equal error rate (EER) of 0.06% is achieved. Systematic evaluation of FiberID is conducted in term of physical length and ambient temperature. Due to its inherent irreproducibility, FiberID holds the promise to significantly enhance current identification, security, and anti-counterfeiting technologies.

Keywords

radiofrequency identification; security of data; FiberID; IDoT; Identification of Things; RFID system; anticounterfeiting technology; molecular-level secret; radiofrequency identification; security technology; telecommunication-grade optical fiber; verification process; Object recognition; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Security; anti-counterfeit; identification; optical fiber; security; verification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2014 IEEE International Workshop on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIFS.2014.7084308

Filename

7084308