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Converse PUF-Based Authentication

AuthorSadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Kocabaş, Ünal; Katzenbeisser, Stefan
Date2012
TypeConference Proceedings
AbstractPhysically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are key tools in the construction of lightweight authentication and key exchange protocols. So far, all existing PUF-based authentication protocols follow the same paradigm: A resource-constrained prover, holding a PUF, wants to authenticate to a resource-rich verifier, who has access to a database of pre-measured PUF challenge-response pairs (CRPs). In this paper we consider application scenarios where all previous PUF-based authentication schemes fail to work: The verifier is resource-constrained (and holds a PUF), while the prover is resource-rich (and holds a CRP-database). We construct the first and efficient PUF-based authentication protocol for this setting, which we call converse PUF-based authentication. We provide an extensive security analysis against passive adversaries, show that a minor modification also allows for authenticated key exchange and propose a concrete instantiation using controlled Arbiter PUFs.
InInternational Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing (TRUST)
PublisherSpringer
PartnTUD-CS-2012-0107
Urlhttps://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/102071