- Patent Title: Cryptographic key production from a physical unclonable function
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Application No.: US15539900Application Date: 2015-12-03
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Publication No.: US10554398B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Vincent Van Der Leest , Roel Maes , Erik Van Der Sluis , Franciscus Maria Joannes Willems
- Applicant: INTRINSIC ID B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: INTRINSIC ID B.V.
- Current Assignee: INTRINSIC ID B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agency: Kenealy Vaidya LLP
- Priority: EP14200283 20141224; EP15179941 20150806
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/078454 WO 20151203
- International Announcement: WO2016/102164 WO 20160630
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; G09C1/00

Abstract:
Some embodiments are directed to an electronic cryptographic device configured to determine a cryptographic key. The cryptographic device has a physically unclonable function, a debiasing unit, and a key reconstruction unit. The PUF is configured to produce a first noisy bit string during an enrollment phase and a second noisy bit string during a reconstruction phase. The debiasing unit (120) is configured to determine debiasing data from the first noisy bit string during the enrollment phase. The debiasing data marks bits in the first noisy bit string as retained or discarded. The key reconstruction unit is configured to determine the cryptographic key from bits in the second noisy bit string marked as retained by the debiasing data, the cryptographic key being independent from bits in the second noisy bit string marked as discarded by the debiasing data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180006813A1 CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY PRODUCTION FROM A PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTION Public/Granted day:2018-01-04
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