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AFRICACRYPT 2010: Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2010 pp 369–386Cite as

Quantum Readout of Physical Unclonable Functions

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Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are physical structures that are hard to clone and have a unique challenge-response behaviour. In this paper we propose a new security primitive, the quantum-readout PUF (QR-PUF): a classical PUF which is challenged using a quantum state, and whose response is also a quantum state. By the no-cloning property of unknown quantum states, attackers cannot intercept challenges or responses without noticeably disturbing the readout process. Thus, a verifier who sends quantum states as challenges and receives the correct quantum states back can be certain that he is probing a specific QR-PUF without disturbances, even in the QR-PUF is far away ‘in the field’ and under hostile control. For PUFs whose information content is not exceedingly large, all currently known PUF-based authentication and anti-counterfeiting schemes require trusted readout devices in the field. Our quantum readout scheme has no such requirement.

We show how the QR-PUF authentication can be interwoven with Quantum Key Exchange (QKE), leading to an authenticated QKE protocol between two parties with the special property that it requires no a priori secret shared by the two parties, and that the quantum channel is the authenticated channel, allowing for an unauthenticated classical channel.

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    Daniel J. Bernstein

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Škorić, B. (2010). Quantum Readout of Physical Unclonable Functions. In: Bernstein, D.J., Lange, T. (eds) Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2010. AFRICACRYPT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12678-9_22

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