Abstract
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are devices which exploit manufacturing variability to uniquely distinguish individuals, thus preventing cloning for malicious purposes. With the increasing demand for low-cost devices, PUF designs which can effectively combine small silicon area and power consumption with high resistance to attacks have become of great interest. Unfortunately, many delay-based PUFs have revealed security weaknesses, making them less useful in such domains. This paper presents a novel delay-based strong PUF, the CRPUF (Cylindrical Reconvergence PUF). CRPUF is based on a carefully designed cylindrical XOR fabric, which allows for a large number of delay paths, thus producing a large combination of challenge-response pairs (CRPs) with relatively low transistor count. Simulations based on circuit delay variability models were performed to evaluate CRPUF with respect to well-known delay PUFs. The simulation results were then validated against an FPGA prototype to show that the desirable properties of the CRPUF can be obtained in a realistic physical implementation. Experiments show that CRPUF has Hamming Distance, Hamming Weight and Entropy comparable to the best results published so far, with acceptable levels of Bit Error Rate. Moreover, experiments also show that CRPUF is much more resistant to modeling attacks than other delay and some memory-based PUFs, making it a good candidate to systems which have stringent cost and security constraints.
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