IACR News item: 16 October 2012
Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Ramesh Karri, James B. Wendt, Miodrag Potkonjak, Nathan McDonald, Garrett S. Rose, and Bryant Wysocki
ePrint Reportsecurity solutions. Hardware based security solutions overcome many of the limitations of classical security while consuming less energy and improving performance. Nanoelectronics based hardware security preserves all of these advantages while enabling conceptually new security mechanisms and security applications. This paper highlights
nanoelectronics based security capabilities and challenges. The paper describes nanoelectronics based hardware security primitives for device identification, digital forensics, and tamper detection. These primitives can be developed using the unique characteristics of emerging nanoelectronic devices such as complex device and system models, bidirectional operation, and temporal drift of the state variable. We conclude by identifying important desiderata and outstanding challenges in nanoelectronics based security.
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