Using physical unclonable functions for hardware authentication: a survey

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Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are drawing a crescent interest in hardware oriented security due to their special characteristics of simplicity and safety. However, their nature as well as early stage of study makes them constitute currently a diverse and non-standardized set for designers. This work tries to establish one organization of existing PUF structures, giving guidelines for their choice, conditioning, and adaptation depending on the target application. In particular, it is described how using PUFs adequately could enlighten significantly most of the security primitives, making them very suitable for authenticating constrained resource platforms.

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Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-03674

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Comunidad Europea FP7-INFSO-ICT-248858

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Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TEC2008-04920, DPI2008-03847 y TEC2007-65105

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