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AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Year Degree Awarded
2016
Month Degree Awarded
September
First Advisor
Sandip Kundu
Second Advisor
Maciej Ciesielski
Third Advisor
Daniel Holcomb
Fourth Advisor
Hava Siegelmann
Subject Categories
VLSI and Circuits, Embedded and Hardware Systems
Abstract
With CMOS scaling extending transistors to nanometer regime, process variations from manufacturing impacts modern IC design. Fortunately, such variations have enabled an emerging hardware security primitive - Physically Unclonable Function. Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware primitives which utilize disorder from manufacturing variations for their core functionality. In contrast to insecure non-volatile key based roots-of-trust, PUFs promise a favorable feature - no attacker, not even the PUF manufacturer can clone the disorder and any attempt at invasive attack will upset that disorder. Despite a decade of research, certain practical problems impede the widespread adoption of PUFs. This dissertation addresses the important problems of (i) post-manufacturing testing, (ii) secure design and (iii) cost efficiency of PUFs. This is with the aim of making PUFs practical and also learning hardware design limitations of disorder based systems.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/9016595.0
Recommended Citation
Vijayakumar, Arunkumar, "On Physical Disorder Based Hardware Security Primitives" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 763.
https://doi.org/10.7275/9016595.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/763