Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs): Design, Strengths and Weaknesses

Speaker/Bio

Lake is a 4th year phd in student in BU ECE and his research focuses on hardware security and design of reliable, secure, and robust hardware systems for distributed systems, whose communications' confidentiality and authenticity are ensured.

Abstract

PUFs, also known figuratively as silicon fingerprints, are more and more used in security area as a crypto primitive. It has certain advantages over the conventional approaches in secret key storage, authentication, IP protection, and hardware Obfuscation etc. This talk will cover the design and application of different PUFs, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.