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As security grows in importance, system designers turn to hardware support for security. Hardware's unique properties enable functionality and performance levels not available with software alone. One unique property of hardware is non-determinism. Unlike software, which is inherently deterministic (e.g., the same inputs produce the same outputs), hardware encompasses an abundance of non-determinism; non-determinism born out of manufacturing and operational chaos. While hardware designers focus on hiding the effects of such chaos behind voltage and clock frequency guard bands, security practitioners embrace the chaos as a source of randomness. We propose a single hardware security primitive composed of basic circuit elements that harnesses both manufacturing and operational chaos to serve as the foundation for both a true randomnumber generator and a physical unclonable function suitable for deployment in resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Our primitive RingRAM leverages the observation that, while existing hardware security primitives have limitations that prevent deployment, they can be merged to form a hardware security primitive that has all of the benefits,

Author

Michael Moukarzel; Matthew Hicks

Publisher

ACM

Published

2021

Language

EN