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In this chapter, the author first sketches the context in which the topic of this book should be considered. In a society which is becoming more complex and interconnected at a very fast rate, the notions of trust and security are of ever greater importance, in particular in our digital lives. This chapter presents on a high level the basic methods and concepts of modern cryptography which allow us to reduce information security problems such as online authentication and secure data transmission, to physical problems such as securely storing a short secret key in a digital hardware platform. The main topic of this book, i.e., physically unclonable functions, are an innovative solution to the latter and are hence able to act as a highly secure physical root of trust in an information security system.
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Maes, R. (2013). Introduction and Preview. In: Physically Unclonable Functions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41395-7_1
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