Analog circuits for physical cryptography

Author

Chen, Q. ; Csaba, G. ; Ju, X. ; Natarajan, S.B. ; Lugli, P. ; Stutzmann, M. ; Schlichtmann, U. ; Rührmair, U.

Author_Institution

Walter Schottky Inst., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

124

Abstract

This paper presents circuit designs to be used as `public-key´ physical uncloneable functions. We will introduce two specially designed circuits: `skew´ memories and massively parallel analog processor arrays (CNNs). We show that such circuits-which are possible to simulate but computationally outperform any feasible digital and hardware-assisted emulation-can be used to remotely and securely identify their owner and serve as a basis for various cryptographic protocols.

Keywords

analogue circuits; cryptographic protocols; public key cryptography; analog circuits; cryptographic protocols; digital assisted emulation; hardware-assisted emulation; massively parallel analog processor arrays; physical cryptography; public-key physical uncloneable functions; skew memories; Analog circuits; Cellular neural networks; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; Control systems; Emulation; Public key; Public key cryptography; Voltage control; cellular nonlinear network; physical cryptography; physical uncloneable function; public key cryptography; skew memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits, ISIC '09. Proceedings of the 2009 12th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-9-8108-2468-6

Type

conf

Filename

5403961