FPGA based Hardware Security for Edge Devices in Internet of Things

Abstract

In Earlier days software security was restricted only for the military, defense, and banking applications. Due to rapid improvements in technology, in each sector, people are using smart electronics devices i.e. nothing but the Internet of Things (IoT). Day by day IOT applications are spreading widely into the market. In IoT applications, all smart objects and devices are connected through the internet. Internet is the most un-secure medium for data communication and it is very susceptible to attacks. In such cases, not only data security but hardware security is equally important to secure low power IoT devices. Hardware Security is quite an upcoming field in the electronics industry. It deals with security in Integrated Circuits (IC). Physically unclonable function (PUF) is an integral part of Hardware Security. It is working on the concept of process variation. In this paper, the most popular Ring Oscillator is implemented based PUF and Arbiter PUF types of PUF on the Zed board (ZYNQ Evaluation and Development Kit xc7z020clg484-1) FPGA using Xilinx Vivado 2016.1 Analysis of PUF parameter is not in the scope of this paper.