Paper 2014/741
Eliminating Leakage in Reverse Fuzzy Extractors
André Schaller, Taras Stanko, Boris Škorić, and Stefan Katzenbeisser
Abstract
In recent years Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been proposed as a promising building block for key storage and device authentication. PUFs are physical systems and as such their responses are inherently noisy, precluding a straightforward derivation of cryptographic key material from raw PUF measurements. To overcome this drawback, Fuzzy Extractors are used to eliminate the noise and guarantee robust outputs. A special type are Reverse Fuzzy Extractors, shifting the computational load of error correction towards a computationally powerful verifier. However, the Reverse Fuzzy Extractor reveals error patterns to any eavesdropper, which may cause privacy issues (due to a systematic drift of the PUF responses, the error pattern is linkable to the identity) and even security problems (if the noise is data-dependent). In this work we investigate both these issues and propose modified protocols that eliminate the problems.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- PUFsfuzzy extractorsECC
- Contact author(s)
- schaller @ seceng informatik tu-darmstadt de
- History
- 2017-01-18: revised
- 2014-09-26: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/741
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/741,
author = {André Schaller and Taras Stanko and Boris Škorić and Stefan Katzenbeisser},
title = {Eliminating Leakage in Reverse Fuzzy Extractors},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/741},
year = {2014},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/741}
}
