The convergence of digital technology and the internet has led to the emergence of complex digital networks utilizing ubiquitous electronic devices such as mobile phones and smart home appliances. As ...

Despite the rigorous process controls for factories, anyone who has worked on hardware can tell you that parts may look identical but are not the same. Everything from silicon defects to microscopic ...

Security experts have been excited about the promise of physically unclonable function (PUF) technology for many years. It wasn’t until recently, however, that reliable, cost-effective ICs with ...

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) represent a class of security primitives that exploit the intrinsic randomness in material properties to generate unique digital fingerprints. By harnessing the ...

The development comes from Rice University, where scientists have applied integrated circuit design to construct new approach for creating secure keys and identifiers on Internet of Things ...

“We introduce a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) based on an ultra-fast chaotic network known as a Hybrid Boolean Network (HBN) implemented on a field programmable gate array. The network, ...

In a step forward for information security for the Internet of Things, a team of researchers has published a new paper in the online edition of Nano Letters in which they have engineered a new type of ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. In cryptography and within embedded security ICs, the physically unclonable function (PUF) is used to create keys that are generated on-demand and ...

(Nanowerk News) The ubiquity of electronic devices makes it essential to use encryption and anti-counterfeiting tools to protect the privacy and security of users. With the growing expansion of the ...

Nearly 600 cell lines commonly used in biomedical research today are misidentified or cross-contaminated, according to a recent paper and several additional studies. One estimates that nearly 33,000 ...

In cryptography and within embedded security ICs, the physically unclonable function (PUF) is used to create keys that are generated on-demand and instantaneously erased once used. Because PUF depends ...