Strong PUF Security Metrics: Response Sensitivity to Small Challenge Perturbations
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Abstract

Measurement and Metrics Testing - This paper belongs to a sequence of manuscripts that discuss generic and easy-to-apply security metrics for Strong PUFs. These metrics cannot and shall not fully replace in-depth machine learning (ML) studies in the security assessment of Strong PUF candidates. But they can complement the latter, serve in initial PUF complexity analyses, and are much easier and more efficient to apply: They do not require detailed knowledge of various ML methods, substantial computation times, or the availability of an internal parametric model of the studied PUF. Our metrics also can be standardized particularly easily. This avoids the sometimes inconclusive or contradictory findings of existing ML-based security test, which may result from the usage of different or non-optimized ML algorithms and hyperparameters, differing hardware resources, or varying numbers of challenge-response pairs in the training phase.

Year of Publication
2022
Date Published
apr
Publisher
IEEE
Conference Location
Santa Clara, CA, USA
ISBN Number
978-1-66549-466-3
URL
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9806260/
DOI
10.1109/ISQED54688.2022.9806260
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