University of New Mexico (UNM)

Workforce Development Proposal on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs)

A hardware security primitive called a Physical Unclonable Function (PUFs) is covered in this module. The primary security and trust goals of PUFs are described, as well as the benefits they offer over conventional key generation and storage mechanisms. Other topics that are covered include 1) the design characteristics and constraints associated with two simple PUF architectures, including RO and Arbiter PUFs, 2) a discussion of weak and strong PUF classes 3) important statistical properties of PUF-generated bitstrings and keys and, 4) design characteristics and statistical equirements of true-random-number-generators (TRNGs) generated bitstrings.