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Abstract

We propose a lightweight, tamper-resilient challenge-response authentication scheme. The scheme that we propose (HB+PUF) is a variant of the PUF-HB protocol [1] which utilizes Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). We reduce the security of (HB+PUF) in the active attacker model to solving the LPN problem. The proposed scheme enjoys strong tamper-resilience due to the PUF properties. We present a proof of concept implementation for the proposed protocol. To generate the random bits needed for the protocol, we reuse the PUF circuit as a Random Number Generator (RNG). This construction shows to be cost-effective since we will be using the same hardware for authentication as well as random number generation without incuring any significant overhead. The overall scheme including storage, tamper-resilience and RNG can be achieved with less than 1000 gates. The small footprint should be ideal for constrained environments such as RFID’s, smart cards, and sensor networks.

Keywords  Provable security - tamper-resilience - lightweight - random number generation - PUF - HB+

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. ANI-0133297 (NSF CAREER Award) and CNS-0716306.

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